Erin Jordan

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources, charged with managing Iowa’s state parks, tries to strike a balance between safeguarding Iowa’s big trees and letting visitors see, touch and experience them.

The lawsuit, filed in Iowa County, asks a judge to grant a temporary and permanent injunction to force C6-Zero and owner Howard Brand III to comply with a Dec. 15 emergency order from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, identify all chemicals at the site and allow the DNR access to the facility.

EcoSource, a Des Moines-based firm hired by C6-Zero to assess environmental damage from the Dec. 8 blast, said it wouldn’t be able to finish cleaning up the site until March -- two months later than the Iowa Department of Natural Resources ordered.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources referred C6-Zero to the Attorney General’s Office for legal action this week after the company said it could not meet deadlines for cleaning up the site.

The Iowa River does not show signs of pollution from the Dec. 8 blast at a Marengo workshop that had large stores of petroleum products, officials said.

Two weeks after an explosion and fire in a Marengo workshop injured up to 15 people and prompted an evacuation of nearby homes, local officials wonder who is going to pay for the long-term cleanup.

Farmers always watch the forecast to figure out when to plant, but this year, drought conditions gripping much of the state have raised anxiety levels. At the same time, corn and soybean prices are higher than they’ve been for a while.

With about 270 on-farm digesters in the U.S. — four of those in Iowa — advocates see a great opportunity for expansion at large-scale CAFOs. Environmentalists say the energy benefits are small compared with cost.

Environmental groups say Supreme Beef facility may endanger trout stream

The Iowa Corrections Department soon will provide N95 masks to more prison staff to better protect them from COVID-19, which …

More than half of Iowa’s state park beaches had at least one week this summer when state officials warned against …

IOWA CITY ? The University of Iowa Athletic Department increased its share of women participating on Hawkeye teams last year after a federal investigation.But large boosts to the rosters of rowing, women's cross country and women's track feed criticisms the UI may be padding women's teams when it should add a new sport.Women made up 50.8 percent of UI's student-athletes in 2016-2017, the university reported to ...

IOWA CITY ? Iowa State University's Team PrISUm, which has been building solar cars since 1989, has given the University of Iowa's new solar car team a jump start on building their own car.The ISU team in November donated the aluminum frame and fiber shell from an older solar car to the UI's American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) solar car team. The UI team will use the materials, valued at $17,000, to ...

Iowans threw away an estimated 556,000 tons of food in 2017, with the share of food in the waste stream up 50 percent since 2011, according to a new statewide waste characterization study from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.Food waste ? including spoiled sour cream, tainted takeout or past-its-prime produce ? accounted for 20 percent of the landfilled materials in the 2017 Iowa Statewide Waste Character...

ANKENY ? The Des Moines company selected to grow marijuana and manufacture medical cannabis products would like to produce tinctures, creams, soft gels, suppositories and even inhalers that allow patients with a variety of ailments to get customized therapies.?We want to create efficacious doses within the parameters established by the law,? Lucas Nelson, an attorney for Kemin Industries and a consultant with ...