AABP EP Awards 728x90

Energy

DSC 6869

MidAmerican’s energy efficiency plan trims $84 million in annual customer fees

MidAmerican Energy Co. today filed an application with the Iowa Utilities Board for approval of a five-year energy efficiency program that meets new spending caps by utilities on those programs enacted by the Iowa Legislature …

DSC 6869

Des Moines to take another step forward in acquisition of superfund site

The city of Des Moines has wrestled with the Dico superfund site along the Raccoon River near Fleur Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway for better than two decades. So what happens when you …

DSC 6869

Trade tussle having little effect, yet, on farm exports

Despite trade disputes with China, Canada, Mexico and the European Union, the four largest customers for U.S. farm exports, 2018 will be a banner year for overseas sales, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture …

DSC 6869

Family farmland sticks with kin, ISU survey shows

A new survey published by the Iowa State University Extension finds that most of Iowa’s farmland doesn’t change ownership very often, Radio Iowa reports. The results of the 2017 survey report that 82 percent of landowners …

DSC 6869

Alliant scraps one solar plan, proposes another

Alliant Energy’s Iowa operation has dropped a plan to ask customers to pay a premium for existing solar energy capacity after the plan was widely criticized. Instead, its Interstate Power and Light branch will come …

DSC 6869

EPA bumps biofuel volumes for 2019, but not for ethanol

Corridor Business Journal: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed increasing the volume of biofuels blended into the nation’s fuel supply by 3 percent in 2019, to 19.88 billion gallons, but it was the proposal’s …

DSC 6869

Report: Coal power will fade in three decades

Energy sector research consulting firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that cheaper renewable power will mean coal will be largely out of the power generation picture in a few decades, Bloomberg reported. 

The company reports some …

DSC 6869

NOTEBOOK: Iowan’s ’88 climate change warning called ‘remarkably prescient’

A soft-spoken scientist from Denison, Iowa, stood before a U.S. Senate committee on June 23, 1988, and said, “The greenhouse effect has been detected and is changing our climate now.”

As Saturday’s 30th anniversary of …

DSC 6869

Crude oil leaks into flooding river from derailed train in northwest Iowa

Sioux City Journal: Residents of several farms were evacuated early this morning after a train carrying oil derailed, spilling some of its contents into floodwaters of the Little Rock River near Doon in northwest Iowa. Firefighters …

DSC 6869

ONE GOOD READ: Cafes serve waste food


There have been efforts over the past couple of decades to start a large-scale organic waste compost operation, but it never really went anywhere. To be sure, there is some effort to manage waste and…