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Nick Fetty | March 28, 2016 This week’s On The Radio segment looks at a recent report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration which found that the Hawkeye State has become the first in the nation to generate more than 30 percent of its electricity from wind.  Transcript: Iowa leads the nation in wind Iowa now leads…

Nick Fetty | March 19, 2015 Earlier this week state lawmakers proposed a bill that would raise sales tax by three-eighths of a percent to help fund natural resources preservation and outdoor recreation efforts. Money raised would go to Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust Fund which was approved by 63 percent of Iowa voters in 2010. State…

Nicole Welle | February 15, 2021 GOP members of the Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee voted last week to advance a bill that would reduce tax breaks for Iowa forest reserves. Currently, landowners qualify for a 100% tax break on land made up of forests as small as two acres. The new bill would reduce the forest reserve tax break to 75% of the property value, require a minimum of 10 acres to qualify and place a five-year limit on exemptions. GOP senators who introduced the bill...