Aided by more than $11 million in grant funding, researchers plan to build a huge drilling rig and determine whether carbon ...

EPA says parts of Des Moines, Raccoon, Iowa, Cedar and S. Skunk rivers should be added to Iowa's impaired waters list because of high nitrate levels.

Worldwide, many agricultural soils are deficient in the nutrient zinc—despite the fact that farmers use fertilizers enriched ...

Yet many of these same folks regularly add fertilizer to their garden soil as a means of keeping plants healthy and productive, especially in vegetable gardens, since these plants do often have ...

Iowa congressional leaders are asking U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to investigate the closure of a chicken processing plant that filed for bankruptcy last month, leaving the state to ...

including the impact on fertilizer costs for farmers, the welfare of the Lee County plant’s 260 employees and their families, and the implications for tax incentives applied to the Iowa ...

Iowa Fertilizer hopes to fill the gap with a nitrogen fertilizer plant currently under construction in Lee County, Iowa, and set for full operation by the fourth quarter of 2015. “We see shale ...

NextEra is assessing the Duane Arnold plant, which was Iowa's only nuclear power station until its 2020 shutdown, and speaking with regulators with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and local ...

Rising energy demands from the technology sector could breathe new life into Iowa’s dormant Duane Arnold nuclear facility, as utility giant NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE) explores restarting the plant.

NextEra Energy is exploring a restart of the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa, company executives said this week. NextEra is conducting engineering assessments and working with the U.S. Nuclear ...

LE MARS, Iowa — The city of Le Mars next month will receive bids for upgrades to its drinking water plant expected to cost nearly $27 million. Mayor Rob Bixenman and City Manager Jason ...

“We’re very interested in recommissioning the plant.” The Duane Arnold nuclear plant, just 8 miles northwest of Cedar Rapids, first opened in February 1975. The 600-megawatt plant shut down ...