ICN Midwest

Amid Iowa’s Water Crisis, Factory Farms Get a Pass on Environmental Permitting

More than a decade after the EPA found that Iowa wasn’t cracking down on polluting factory farms, the state continues to hedge on enforcement.

Story by Anika Jane Beamer, photos by Zach Spindler-Krage

Where Opposition to Data Centers and Renewable Energy Projects Converge

By Dan Gearino

‘Pitchfork Populism’ Over Data Centers Rattles Ohio’s U.S. Senate Race

By Dan Gearino

Inside Ohio’s Revolt Against Data Centers

By Dan Gearino

Michigan Spill Prompts Federal Probe of Energy Transfer Pipelines’ Safety

By Marianne Lavelle

To Block Solar Energy Projects, One Community Lumped Them in With Junkyards and Adult Bookstores

By Dan Gearino

21 States Sue EPA to Reinstate Climate Pollution Rules for Power Plants

By Lisa Sorg

Court Nixes Michigan’s Novel Antitrust Case Targeting Big Oil 

By Dana Drugmand

Trump Targets Big Bad Wolves, but Ranchers Say Other Administration Actions Drive Their Woes

By Jake Bolster, Peter Aldhous

These State Elections Could Reshape Climate and Energy Policy

By Dan Gearino

What’s Next for Summit’s Carbon ‘Pipeline to Nowhere’?

By Anika Jane Beamer

Is Wildfire Risk Increasing in the Midwest?

By Susan Cosier

As Power Demand Rises, a Clean-Energy State Falls Back on Coal

By Anika Jane Beamer

Formal Repeal of Roadless Rule Directly Threatens Midwest Wilderness

By Sarah Mattalian

Court Rules Against Trump Order to Keep Costly Michigan Coal Plant Running

By Dan Gearino, Keerti Gopal, Marianne Lavelle

These States Are Leading the Electricity Generation Boom

By Dan Gearino

As Water Pollution Concerns Grow in Iowa, So Do Fertilizer Industry Profits

By Anika Jane Beamer

In Chicago ERs, Extreme Heat’s Toll Goes Far Beyond the Obvious

By Keerti Gopal

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

By Anika Jane Beamer