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The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship will partner with the city of Ames and the Story County Soil and Water Conservation District on water qu
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship will partner with the city of Ames and the Story County Soil and Water Conservation District on water qu
Iowans are starting to learn more about another major piece of the Senate bill. Call it The Great Tax Swap.
Alongside rising global population levels is the continual development and expansion of various industries, including pharmaceuticals, refining and manufacturing. In spite of their differences, each of these industries is responsible for a generation of extremely contaminated waters and has a vested interest in ensuring water quality. Image credit: Avatar_023/Shutterstock.com Both municipal and industrial wastewaters present considerable health risks to human health and also endanger the environment; thus, all wastewaters must be carefully treated and closely monitored before being discha...
by Perry Beeman The country’s top environmental official spent his first trip to Iowa largely meeting with farmers, not environmentalists. Michael Regan, a former top North Carolina environment official who now heads the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters at a news conference near the Dico Superfund site in Des Moines he will be in no rush to change the state’s voluntary Nutrient Reduction Strategy. He did not sound like a man moving quickly to regulate nitrogen and phosphorus, the two main farm fertilizers causing pollution issues from Iowa’s streams and lakes...