IA: Environment
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Plan pays IA farmers to reduce excess nitrogen use
A farm group is helping Iowa agriculture producers find ways to reduce the amount of nitrogen they use on their crops. Excess nitrates can wind up …
Iowa CAFOs could cash in on California emissions credits
Iowa factory farms could cash in on new proposed carbon emissions tax-credit rules in California. The new emissions standards would allow …
Wildlife disease measure could benefit IA ag industry
Wildlife advocates are asking Congress to pass bill that would help states track diseases killing wildlife across the country. In Iowa, the measure …
Environmental advocates want tougher CAFO rules
After a two-and-a-half-year process, time is winding down for the public to comment on new rules for concentrated animal feeding operations in Iowa…
Iowa uses public's birds-eye view to monitor bald eagles, amphibians
Iowa wildlife officials are asking outdoor enthusiasts to cast a birds-eye view on bald eagle nests to help track their health, and are also on a …
Rural groups push for environmental protections in next Farm Bill
Even though the current Farm Bill has been extended for a year, rural advocates are speaking up about protecting independent and family farms when …
State skips climate-change grants, Iowa cities reap $3 million instead
A handful of Iowa's biggest cities has been awarded $3 million to work on solutions to climate change at the local level. The climate pollution …
Family farm advocates suspect profit motive behind some 'conservation' practices
Midwest family farm advocates have sent a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, opposing recent additions to conservation practices they said …
IA implements first-ever drought plan
The State of Iowa has just put its first-ever drought plan to work to help it manage one of the longest and most severe dry periods in recent history…
Rural IA boosts efforts to test private wells
By Tony Leys for KFF Health News.Broadcast version by Mark Moran for Iowa News Service reporting for the KFF Health News-Public News Service Collabor…
Big Push for Wind as Rural Iowa Economic Development
Green energy advocates are pushing wind power as an economic development tool in rural America. Iowa is among the nation's leaders in wind energy …
Advocates Blast EPA Over 'Inaction' on Confinement Rules
Clean-water activists are angry over a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to sidestep action on threats to water posed by factory …