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

A new poll finds that 85 percent of Iowans in “toss-up” congressional districts would be more likely to vote for a candidate who prioritizes clean water and cuts to industrial agriculture pollution.

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
An aerial view of a DM hog farm, one of the farms sending methane gas to the Align RNG processing facility in Turkey, N.C. A digester covers a manure lagoon on the left and the digester waste is sent to the open lagoon on the right. Credit: Kemp Burdette

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution

By Blanca Begert

Taylor Register, a water quality specialist with Sound Rivers, samples water from a ditch near White Oaks Farm in North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of Samantha Krop

A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations

By Lisa Sorg

A cyclist passes a landfill, a known emitter of Methane, on Jan. 21 in Barisal, Bangladesh. Credit: Niamul Rifat/Anadolu via Getty Images

International Effort to Curb Emissions of a Climate Super Pollutant Falls Short, UN Report Reveals

By Phil McKenna

A view of an Iowa soybean field with corn stubble from the previous year. Credit: Curt Maas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Can We Produce More Food With Less Land?

By Anika Jane Beamer

In the image, the sky is dramatically blue with interesting clouds above the manure and fields

Iowa Agriculture Runs on 110 Billion Pounds of Manure, at a Cost to Its Water

By Anika Jane Beamer

UC Berkeley students participate in a class at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Emeryville, California. Credit: Thor Swift/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

New Grant Will Further Research to Identify and Generate Biomass in California’s North San Joaquin Valley

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

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