Olivia Cohen
Environmental and Energy Reporter at The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Environmental and Energy Reporter at Report For America
Environment and Energy reporter for @Report4America & @GazetteDotCom | Bad Tweeter | Fan of public records, philosophy & piping-hot coffee
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1 week ago |
thegazette.com | Olivia Cohen
MidAmerican Energy The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. MidAmerican Energy has asked Iowa regulators to approve the addition a small charge to customers’ natural gas bills. If approved by the Iowa Utilities Commission, the charge — called a capital investment charge — would add about 17 cents to customers’ average monthly bills, increasing them by about 0.4 percent.
AmeriCorps volunteers sent home amid federal DOGE cuts, eliminating a ‘first line of defense’ in dis
1 week ago |
thegazette.com | Olivia Cohen
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Volunteers who respond to disasters and aid nonprofits through the federal AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps were informed Tuesday they have been let go from service, effective immediately. Volunteers were told they would exit the program early “due to programmatic circumstances beyond your control,” according to an email obtained and reported by the Associated Press.
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1 week ago |
thegazette.com | Olivia Cohen
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Six new Iowa counties have been added to the list of places where chronic wasting disease -- a neurological illness that affects deer, elk and moose -- is confirmed. First-time detections of chronic wasting disease were found in Shelby, Pottawattamie, Davis, Wapello, Cedar and Story counties during the 2024-25 surveillance season.
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1 week ago |
thegazette.com | Olivia Cohen
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For about four years,Sean Dengler drove some 90 minutes each way from his home in Urbandale to his family’s farm in Tama to pursue his love of farming. He would help out on his multigenerational farm with his father and grandparents when he could.
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2 weeks ago |
thegazette.com | Olivia Cohen
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Nathan Brockman has been researching butterflies for years in Iowa. “Insects have the ability to bounce back. They're really resilient creatures for the most part,” said Brockman, Reiman Gardens’ director of entomology at Iowa State University.
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