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Secret Plan to Dump Slaughterhouse Waste Blindsided Residents of Iowa’s Loess Hills

Monona County officials and residents fear a repeat of the communication gaps and loopholes that left them caught off guard by a plan to import treated slaughterhouse manure.

By Anika Jane Beamer

 A former soybean field and six-acre earthen basin in Castana, Iowa, where a private developer planned to dump dehydrated manure from an out-of-town slaughterhouse. Credit: Scott Koepsell
Matthew Bormann, a fifth-generation farmer, is one-third of a trio of growers in Iowa’s flat and fertile Des Moines Lobe. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

A Water Crisis Has The ‘Poster Boys’ of Iowa Farming Ready to Talk Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer
The town of Princeton, Iowa, has shuttered two wells in two decades due to persistent nitrate contamination. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

An Iowa Town Spent $800,000 on a New Well. It Pumps Undrinkable Water.

By Anika Jane Beamer
A view of a methane digester at Straus Dairy Farm in Marshall, Calif. Credit: Scott Strazzante/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

USDA Extends Pause on Loans for Controversial Digesters That Turn Manure Into Biogas

By Steven Rodas, Lisa Sorg
The Des Moines River is a drinking water source for more than 600,000 Iowans. When nitrate levels in the river spike, Central Iowa Water Works spends $9,000 to $16,000 a day operating its removal facilities. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

With Fertilizer Pollution on the Rise, Iowa Will Invest $100 Million in Water Treatment

By Anika Jane Beamer
A view of the POET Bioprocessing ethanol plant in Jewell, Iowa. Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Iowa Moves to Shield Farmers, Ethanol Plants, From Lawsuits Over Emissions

By Anika Jane Beamer, Georgina Gustin
The Harris Cattle Ranch feedlot, located along Interstate 5, is the largest producer of beef in California and can produce 150 million pounds of beef a year. Nearly 100,000 head of cattle are spread over 800 acres at this former family-run cattle company, now owned by the Central Valley Meat Company based in Hanford, CA. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

Cancer Rates Are Higher Near Large Livestock Feeding Operations in 3 States, a New Study Finds

By Steven Rodas
An ethanol plant is seen in Casselton, N.D. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Summit Sold Its Midwest Pipeline as a Carbon Solution. Now, It’ll Be Used for Fossil Fuels.

By Anika Jane Beamer
Poultry manure is spread as fertilizer on a northwest Iowa corn field. Nitrate from fertilizer that seeps into Iowa drinking water sources has been singled out as a potential  driver of the state’s rising cancer rates. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

Iowa’s Cancer Crisis Linked to Pesticides, PFAS, Fertilizer and Radon, Report Says

By Anika Jane Beamer
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 4 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

The Latest Front in the Battle Over Climate Lawsuits: Bills Wiping Out Liability

By Dana Drugmand
Inside Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Credit: Google

Google’s Response to an Iowa County’s New Data Center Requirements? Annex the Land.

By Anika Jane Beamer
A rendering of the QTS data center currently under construction in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Credit: QTS

Facing Its Third Data Center, an Iowa County Rolls Out Extensive Zoning Rules

By Anika Jane Beamer
A grain elevator is surrounded by floodwater from the Mississippi River on the Iowa-Illinois border in 2023. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Iowa’s Water Crisis Could Help Tip the Scales for Control of US House

By Anika Jane Beamer
A wind farm is seen in a rural area near Pomeroy, Iowa, on July 5, 2025. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

What’s Killing Onshore Wind Power?

By Dan Gearino, Anika Jane Beamer

Stretched Thin, Iowa Agency Issues Few Fines for Manure Pollution

By Nina B. Elkadi, Anika Jane Beamer
The Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

Cleaner Water a Hope, Not a Given, for Iowa in 2026

By Anika Jane Beamer
A view of restored oxbow wetland in Johnston, Iowa. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

To Save An Endangered Prairie Fish, Dried-up Iowa Wetlands Get New Life

By Anika Jane Beamer

Where Does 110 Billion Pounds of Manure Go?

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A view of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, Iowa. Credit: NextEra Energy

Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country

By Anika Jane Beamer

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