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Iowa Global Warming will host a free screening of "The 11th Hour," a documentary about ecological threats on the planet, to be shown in West Des Moines Monday night.

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 [...]

As he shepherds and tracks several energy bills being funneled to committees in the state Legislature before next week’s cutoff date, Sen Rob Hogg, D-Cedar Rapids, praised Gov. Chet Culver’s energy policies:
“Governor Culver has done an outstanding job on his advocacy for what he calls the next-generation energy economy … There might be some people [...]

Gov. Chet Culver announced his energy plan today in a phone call from Washington, D.C., where he is attending the National Governor’s Association Conference. The three-pronged proposal leans heavily on improving energy efficiency standards.

One part of his approach calls for the establishment of a new commission within the Department of Public Safety that would focus [...]

New York Senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton displayed her microphone skills earlier this week at a campaign event in the gymnasium of Tilford Middle School in Vinton, Ia.

The event began with a plea for caucus votes from former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack, wife of former Iowa governor and one-time presidential candidate Tom [...]

A Washington State congressman brought a can-do attitude on global warming on his book tour, telling an audience at Prairie Lights in Iowa City that the climate crisis gives America “huge challenges and huge opportunities both in the same moment.”

“I think Americans respond to messages of optimism and confidence, and I think that is both [...]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s white paper on energy and the looming climate crisis was a long time coming, but at least one Iowa environmental activist believes it was worth the wait.
“I thought the speech was great,” said Mike Carberry, a regional field director for Iowa Global Warming, after listening to Clinton’s remarks on Monday. “She [...]

Speaking to about 100 people at a fundraiser for Cedar County Democrats on Saturday Night in Tipton, Rep. Nate Reichert said a new energy economy is “the greatest opportunity Iowans have had in at least two or three generations.”
The Muscatine resident, who has represented District 80 in the Iowa House since 2004, was tapped to [...]

There are more than 6 billion humans living on Earth and if we all consumed, traveled and lived as I do, we’d need about four and a half Earths to sustain us, that’s according to an on-line game produced by American Public Media. 

If I continue to need so much energy and supporting infrastructure, a [...]

The City Development Board today rejected a proposal for the annexation of 345 acres to build a 750-megawatt coal plant east of Waterloo.  Opponents of the plant are calling the decision a “major victory.”

The area under review contains the property of Merle Bell whose family has farmed the same 40 acres for over a century.

Carole [...]