Perry Beeman for Iowa Capital Dispatch
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Since 2017, Global Fiberglass Solutions Inc. has said it plans to recycle the 1,300 blades. Environmental regulators want the firm to be investigated by the attorney general’s office.
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Dennis Todey, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Midwest Climate Hub, said the prospects for the rest of the summer are hard to forecast. At best, Iowa would get enough rain to hold off an even worse drought, he predicted.
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Partnership Eyes Action On Airport Terminal, Water Trails
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Supreme Beef wants to raise more than 10,000 cattle in a partially enclosed feedlot near Bloody Run Creek, not far from Monona in Clayton County. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources years ago declared Bloody Run an “outstanding Iowa water” requiring special protection, and the agency stocks trout in the popular fishing spot.
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Most scientists agree that humans’ activities are driving a buildup of greenhouse gases that are warming the globe. But a researcher from ISU says many farmers still doubt that consensus.