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Anika Jane Beamer

Reporter, Iowa

Anika Jane Beamer covers the environment and climate change in Iowa, with a particular focus on water, soil and CAFOs. A lifelong Midwesterner, she writes about changing ecosystems from one of the most transformed landscapes on the continent. She holds a master’s degree in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a bachelor’s degree in biology and Spanish from Grinnell College. She is a former Outrider Fellow at Inside Climate News and was named a Taylor-Blakeslee Graduate Fellow by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.

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Residents attend a July town hall in Fairfax, Iowa, hosted by grassroots group Save Morgan Valley. Credit: Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News

As Data Centers Move In, Iowa Residents Fight Plans for a New Gas Plant

By Anika Jane Beamer

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announces reallocation of ethanol-blending requirements the agency waived earlier this year while visiting a Farm Bureau office in Peosta, Iowa.

Ahead of Midterms, Republicans Court Iowa Farmers With Fuel Plans

By Anika Jane Beamer

In 2018, thawing manure ran off of neighboring fields where it had been spread, polluting the stream on Gordon Garrison’s property in Estherville, Iowa.

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

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

An aerial view of the Dalton Highway and a portion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System crossing over the frozen Atigun River in North Slope Borough, Alaska. Credit: Lance King/Getty Images

Looking for Oil in Alaska, No Environmental Strings Attached

By Anika Jane Beamer

Grain bins sit at the edge of a cornfield near West Union, Iowa. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

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

By Anika Jane Beamer

A view of the Walter Scott Jr. Energy Center, a coal-fired power plant owned MidAmerican Energy, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Credit: Michael Siluk/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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

By Anika Jane Beamer

Traffic moves along Interstate 405 in Los Angeles on Feb. 13. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Court Stalls EPA Plan to Override California’s Vehicle Pollution Standards

By Anika Jane Beamer

The CF Industries fertilizer complex in Donaldsonville, La. Credit: Emily Kask/The Washington Post via Getty Images

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

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

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

By Anika Jane Beamer

People gather in front of the Supreme Court on June 25 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Regulatory Rollbacks Fuel Surge in Protective Climate Lawsuits

By Anika Jane Beamer

Protesters gather in front of the Supreme Court for “The People vs. Poison” rally on April 27 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

Supreme Court Delivers a Victory for Pesticide Companies in Fight Over Cancer Claims

By Anika Jane Beamer

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

Used EVs sit on a sales lot on March 30 in West Covina, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Claims ‘Overwhelming Rejection’ of EVs as It Moves to Loosen Air Pollution Rules

By Anika Jane Beamer

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

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (left) and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announce the EPA’s draft Contaminant Candidate List on Thursday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer

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