LCS Corp., a Des Moines-based senior living services company, announced that its president and CEO, Joel Nelson, was elected to serve a three-year term as the chairman of the board of directors for Argentum. The national trade association …
Des Moines Register: Gov. Kim Reynolds today signed a law requiring most Iowa gas stations to offer gasoline with higher blends of ethanol as she seeks to boost the state’s biofuels industry and tout a cheaper …
Iowa Public Radio: A new analysis from the Environmental Working Group finds taxpayers fronted nearly $40 billion in crop insurance premium subsidies between 2001 and 2020 across 13 states, most of which are in the Mississippi …
Americans may need to rethink — or perhaps recharge — their thinking about how electric vehicle charging infrastructure will be built out as EV technology takes off, as this Slate article suggests. Some of the current thinking …
On a Sunday morning in 1993, our phone rang just after 5 a.m. It was a friend from church telling us that the levees surrounding the Des Moines Water Works plant had been breached and …
Axios Des Moines: The average price of regular gasoline reached a record high in Iowa today at $4.12 a gallon, according to AAA. The national average was $4.40. A month ago, the average price in Iowa …
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Iowa Environmental Council wants to force the state’s Environmental Protection Commission to adopt flood plain maps to comply with a law that says animal-feeding operations can’t be built near waterways. “The EPC …
The World Food Prize Foundation is accepting nominations for the Dr. Norman E. Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application. The award, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation, recognizes science-based achievements in international agriculture and food production by …
Los Angeles is experiencing a drought that is the region’s worst in 1,200 years, according to this Fast Company article, and as it appears climate change may make it a long-lasting phenomenon, the city is considering …
Renewable Energy Group Inc. announced today that it has acquired a Northern California bulk fuel distributor. According to a news release, REG’s acquisition of Dawson Oil Company will bring about 24 million gallons of fuel …
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