Iowa Waters

Three environmental groups are calling on MidAmerican Energy to retire its coal-fired power plants, in order to save ratepayers millions of dollars. The organizations are making their case to the Iowa Utilities Board, which is considering the company's latest emissions plan.

The overall number of waterbody segments that have been designated impaired has decreased slightly since 2018, according to the state's draft impaired waters list. But the rate of rivers, lakes and streams that are impaired has increased.

Environmental advocates are calling attention to the state of the Upper Mississippi River levee system, which was under pressure this past spring as…

Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg took her weekly climate strike to Iowa City Friday, and was welcomed by local elected officials and…

The U.S. Geological Survey is expanding its network of water quality sensors to include a first-of-its-kind mobile sensor – that will cruise the…

Iowa’s elected conservationists want to stop farmers from planting up to the edges of creeks and rivers. A statewide association is pushing for mandatory…

Iowa is seeing certain impacts of climate change impacts more clearly than much of the rest of the country, according to a new analysis for the Iowa…

An analysis by University of Iowa researchers has found a state-funded program for testing private wells suffers from “severe underutilization." The…

An artistic couple who are largely running and biking their way along the length of the Mississippi River passed through LeClaire Friday. The trek from…

A coalition of environmental groups wants presidential candidates to treat drinking water as a top policy priority, and is asking them to build out their…