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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has denied Missouri-based LS Power and subsidiary Elk Run Energy their construction permit for a coal plant in Waterloo Thursday because of “failure to meet an administrative requirement.”

Air Quality Bureau Chief Catharine Fitzsimmons told the Iowa Independent that her office “turned the application back to the applicant because they [...]

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is predicting record high prices at the gas pump this year. In their February fuel-price survey issued yesterday, they noted that a continued climb in crude prices is keeping gas prices above $3 a gallon. DNR Program Planner Jim Bodensteiner said that “lowered demand and strong inventories” won’t [...]

The Iowa Conservation Education Coalition welcomed former ICEC chair Richard Leopold to Camp Io-Dis-E-Ca near Solon, Iowa, for the ICEC winter conference this weekend. Leopold is the director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Before his keynote address at the conference on Friday night, he talked with the Iowa Independent about some state environmental issues, [...]

Elk Run Energy doesn’t have an Iowa office yet, but they are preparing to apply for an Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) air quality permit at a proposed coal plant in Waterloo, Ia. 

Last week from St. Louis, Mo., Elk Run Energy’s Mark Millburn said he expects to begin application for an air quality permit [...]