Ag and Environment

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Navigator asks regulators to approve condemnation powers for its CO2 pipeline

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Navigator Heartland Greenway this week became the second developer of a carbon dioxide sequestration pipeline to ask Iowa regulators to allow it to use eminent domain to force landowners to sell it easements …
By BPC Staff | Oct 27, 2022
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USDA announces another $759 million of grants and loans for rural internet

Iowa Capital Dispatch: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is awarding grants and loans that total about $759 million to 49 high-speed internet projects in 24 states and in other territories, the department announced today. The total …
By BPC Staff | Oct 27, 2022
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Inaugural Land Stewardship Leadership Academy cohort graduates

The first cohort of the Land Stewardship Leadership Academy graduated from the new nine-month program on Friday. The 20 natural resources professionals who participated came from the Natural Resource Conservation Service, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, state …
By BPC Staff | Oct 17, 2022
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Iowa pipeline regulators reject tribe’s request for environmental impact study

Des Moines Register: Iowa regulators have declined a Winnebago tribal request that Summit Carbon Solutions conduct a state-level environmental impact study of its proposed $4.5 billion carbon-capture pipeline across Iowa. The Iowa Utilities Board said Thursday …
By BPC Staff | Oct 10, 2022
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Taiwan trade delegates visiting Iowa pledge to buy nearly $3B of U.S. corn, soybeans

Des Moines Register: Taiwanese trade officials agreed Tuesday to buy nearly $3 billion of U.S. corn and soybeans at a ceremony with Gov. Kim Reynolds and Iowa farm leaders at the Iowa State Capitol. Members of …
By BPC Staff | Sep 22, 2022
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New partnership aims for 2 million acres of regenerative agriculture practices

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Archer Daniels Midland Co. and PepsiCo are partnering to expand regenerative agriculture practices across 2 million acres of cropland by 2030. Efforts in Iowa will focus around Cedar Rapids and Clinton, where ADM’s …
By BPC Staff | Sep 20, 2022
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Des Moines to launch new lead pipe abatement program

Axios Des Moines: Roughly 20,000 metro homes have lead water pipes that will cost upwards of $200 million to replace, according to estimates from Des Moines Water Works. The utility is spearheading the creation of a …
By BPC Staff | Sep 20, 2022
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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: The race to launch businesses that recycle batteries

The world’s biggest automakers are betting that recycled material from old batteries will help supply the metal they need to build electric cars, writes Amrith Ramkumar for the Wall Street Journal. So are startups, including Ascend …
By BPC Staff | Sep 14, 2022
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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Wyoming will soon be home to world’s largest carbon removal facility

Here’s a timely story out today from Fast Company that details what the world’s largest carbon-capture project in the world will look like two states to the west of us — in my former stomping grounds in …
By JOE GARDYASZ | Sep 12, 2022
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NOTEBOOK – ONE GOOD READ: Cold truth from the ends of the earth

Maybe you saw the recent news about the “zombie ice” from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches. If you’re not a Time magazine subscriber like …
By JOE GARDYASZ | Sep 8, 2022