Des Moines faces record nitrate levels in drinking water. Iowa’s pollution crisis is a warning of how deregulation and industrial agriculture threaten public health.

The Environmental Protection Agency has overturned a 2024 ruling that sought to protect some of Iowa's largest waterways that ...

Powerful Hurricane Erin has undergone a period of astonishingly rapid intensification — a phenomenon that has become far more ...

Officials from Des Moines Water Works said Thursday a decision from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pertaining to ...

For the first time since May 30, Central Iowa Water Works says its Des Moines-area customers can resume normal lawn watering and irrigation.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rescinded its previous decision to add seven segments to Iowa’s list of impaired ...

Local advocates are reaching out to those potentially impacted by the fertilizer spill that occurred in the East Nishnabotna ...

Experts spoke out about Iowa’s persistently polluted water on the heels of a spike in nitrate levels in the state’s waterways ...

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Iowa DNR opposed Biden EPA deciding Des Moines, Raccoon, other river segments were impaired. Trump EPA rescinded the decision ...