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The Talk of Iowa team hops into a dugout canoe on Lake Darling to learn about Indigenous cultural practices. Plus, Project AWARE uses canoes to clean up Iowa waters.
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Shea Hembrey, who just completed an artist fellowship at the University of Iowa, creates “landscape paintings” using colorful soil supplements to plant trees and promote native bird conservation.
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As temperatures rise, so do energy bills. Some Iowa homeowners and builders are creating more energy efficient housing, for both comfort and long-term cost savings. And for lower income residents, new HUD energy-efficiency standards will help with both comfort and their portion of income spent on utilities.
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Summit Carbon Solutions has proposed new public informational meeting dates for 23 counties that would span about four weeks. The company that recently gained approval from state regulators for its carbon dioxide pipeline system in Iowa wants to proceed with expansion requests for that system starting in late August.
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There’s not a shortage of water, but as demand increases into the summer, it will be harder to provide tap water below the legal limit for nitrate.
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The Iowa DNR is helping to reduce environmental hazards and waste from entering landfills through the Derelict Building Grant Program.
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The U.S. Drought Monitor shows three quarters of the state has had adequate rainfall this spring.
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The private solar installation is part of a goal for Grinnell to reach net-zero emissions by 2040.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is beginning to send nearly 5,000 electric buses to school districts around the country after a nearly two-year ramp-up. A few Midwestern districts weigh in on how the new buses are working so far.
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State lawmakers could pause eminent domain proceedings under a bill that advanced Wednesday with bipartisan support in the Iowa House. The bill comes as the Iowa Utilities Board is set to decide if a carbon capture pipeline can cross the property of unwilling landowners.