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4 days ago | 
thegazette.com | Cami Koons
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa is an outlier for the wrong reasons, according to several environmental advocates who spoke last week at the Harkin Institute’s annual wellness symposium, which this year focused on the future of clean water.
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5 days ago | 
nonpareilonline.com | Cami Koons
When household waste decomposes at a landfill, it produces methane, a greenhouse gas that traps significantly more heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires that large landfills monitor and capture the gas, but some landfills in Iowa are going a step further and “upgrading” the landfill gas into renewable natural gas.
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6 days ago | 
iowacapitaldispatch.com | Cami Koons
by Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 18, 2025 Research from The Nature Conservancy found current clean energy tax credits, if kept in place through 2032 would add more than $238 million in annual economic value to Iowa. Some folks fear the tax credits will be slashed by congressional leaders as they stare down hefty budget cuts and eye Biden-era environmental policies, but advocates of the clean energy credits say they are essential to reaching American energy dominance.
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6 days ago | 
newsfromthestates.com | Cami Koons
Research from The Nature Conservancy found current clean energy tax credits, if kept in place through 2032 would add more than $238 million in annual economic value to Iowa. Some folks fear the tax credits will be slashed by congressional leaders as they stare down hefty budget cuts and eye Biden-era environmental policies, but advocates of the clean energy credits say they are essential to reaching American energy dominance.
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6 days ago | 
indianola-ia.com | Cami Koons
Iowa is an outlier for the wrong reasons, according to several environmental advocates who spoke at the Harkin Institute's annual wellness symposium, which this year focused on the future of clean water.
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6 days ago | 
southernminn.com | Cami Koons
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1 week ago | 
iowacapitaldispatch.com | Cami Koons
A bill advanced from the Iowa House Thursday that would regulate anaerobic digesters, or systems that break down organic material in an oxygen-deprived system to produce usable biogas and fertilizer, at animal feeding operations. House File 989 would task the Iowa Department of Natural Resources with regulating the construction, expansion, placement and operation of anaerobic digesters and associated structures that hold manure feedstocks at animal feeding operations.
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1 week ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Cami Koons
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1 week ago | 
ktiv.com | Cami Koons
FORT DODGE, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a fish kill near Fort Dodge, caused by a leak of a fertilizer byproduct, according a press release. The spill reached the South Branch of Lizard Creek, where DNR staff observed dead fish for several miles and the byproduct, causing brown, murky water stretched around seven road miles downstream from the facility involved.
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1 week ago | 
desmoinesregister.com | Cami Koons
Cami KoonsIowa Capital DispatchThe Harkin Institute and Iowa Environmental Council are launching an initiative to study the link between environmental hazards and Iowa's high cancer rates. Iowa has the second-highest cancer rate in the U.S. and significant agricultural pollution in its water. The initiative will involve community outreach, research review, and a public report with visual data mapping.
