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Residents Seek Answers About Health Risks Near Frac Sand Mines

When Jim and Kathy Kachel moved into their home south of Bagley, Wisconsin, overlooking the Mississippi River in fall 2007, they couldn’t see the Pattison Sand Mine directly across the river in Clayton, Iowa. Since then, terraced layers of limestone carved into the northeast Iowa bluff have made way

By Emily Highnam/Iowa Watch

/ 21 Mar 2019

Residents Seek Answers About Health Risks Near Frac Sand Mines

Public health researchers disagree on the impact fine silica dust has on the long-term health of residents living near silica sand mining communities like the tiny Mississippi River town of Clayton, which is in the Iowa county by the same name, and in southwest Wisconsin.

By Emily Highnam

/ 21 Mar 2019

Iowa Pesticide Bureau Workloads Grow But Not Inspection Staff Levels

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Workloads for eight state investigators who determine whether herbicides are applied properly in Iowa have more than doubled the past two years, with no plans in

By Lauren Wade

/ 6 Mar 2019

Iowa Pesticide Bureau Workloads Grow But Not Inspection Staff Levels

Legislative Bill Would Increase Pesticide Application Fees In Iowa, Send Money To Inspections

A bill has been introduced in the Iowa Legislature that would increase the fee for a three-year public or private pesticide application certification from $15 to $30 and designate

By IowaWatch

/ 4 Mar 2019

Legislative Bill Would Increase Pesticide Application Fees In Iowa, Send Money To Inspections

Bug Bombs Fail At Killing Insects But May Pose Harm to People, Study Finds

A new study has found that bug bombs, which are used by millions of Americans to kill insects such as cockroaches, often fail to eradicate those pests and yet expose consumers to potential health risks.

By Eli Wolfe/FairWarning

/ 7 Feb 2019

Bug Bombs Fail At Killing Insects But May Pose Harm to People, Study Finds

Journalists, Students Interested In Environmental Communications: Register For Iowa Summit

An opportunity exists on March 5 for journalists and students interested in environmental communication to network, explore issues with researchers, promote environmental journalism and strengthen the capacity for regional environmental

By IowaWatch

/ 24 Jan 2019

Journalists, Students Interested In Environmental Communications: Register For Iowa Summit

Years later, little action on recommendations for Iowa’s pesticide inspections

Problems the Iowa State Auditor’s office identified in a 2012 audit and subsequent reports and recommendations for investigating Iowa’s pesticide use violations still linger years later.

By Lauren Wade/Iowa Watch

/ 23 Jan 2019

Years Later, Little Action On Recommendations For Iowa's Pesticide Inspections

Problems the Iowa State Auditor’s office identified in a 2012 audit and subsequent reports and recommendations for investigating Iowa’s pesticide use violations still linger years later. The Iowa

By Lauren Wade

/ 22 Jan 2019

Sex Registry Failures, Pesticide Drift Concerns, Mental Health Care Top Readers' Interest at IowaWatch in 2018

The IowaWatch.org stories from 2018 that you read most covered a variety of topics: the environment, mental, cultural diversity, agriculture and personal safety from being assaulted. Here they are.

By Taylor Odekirk

/ 26 Dec 2018

Local Town Dumps A Thing Of The Past Due To High Cost Of Government Regulations

“See that brown building, to the left of the tree line? That’s the University of Dubuque. And a little further left, you can kind of see that little ridge,

By Lauren Wade/Iowa Watch

/ 17 Dec 2018

Small Iowa landfills began to close when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Iowa Department of Natural Resource

Local Town Dumps A Thing Of The Past Due To High Cost Of Government Regulations

Many small Iowa communities no longer can afford to maintain their local dumps when faced with increasing regulation and permitting fees by the EPA and Iowa Department of Natural Resources. That has forced new ways of thinking about waste management.

By Lauren Wade

/ 5 Dec 2018

Local Town Dumps A Thing Of The Past Due To High Cost Of Government Regulations

Emails Show EPA Approved Monsanto Herbicide Label Changes After Consulting With Company

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prepared to make label changes for the herbicide dicamba after it caused widespread crop damage, the agency depended on the herbicide’s maker

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

/ 30 Jul 2018

Emails Show EPA Approved Monsanto Herbicide Label Changes After Consulting With Company