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New laws take effect Wednesday

By Jason Hancock 6/29/09

An expansion of the state’s children health insurance program, changes to sex offender registry and tougher restrictions on pseudoephedrine sales are just a few of the new laws set to go into effect on Wednesday.
Most legislation that was passed during the 2009 General Assembly takes effect July 1, at the start of the 2010 fiscal [...]

Video: Cultivating Iowa’s Bioeconomy

By Adam Burke 4/10/08

What does he want? Phytoremediation! When does he want it? Now!

For Lou Licht, cleaning up polluted land using plants is a no-brainer. He’s patented a process using poplar trees for phytoremediation. On Tuesday, the North Liberty entrepreneur was a keynote speaker at a “Bioeconomy” conference called “Keep it Small, Keep it All: Cultivating the Bioeconomy [...]

Videos: IA DNR Chief Talks Water Quality, CRP and Deer Management

By Adam Burke 1/27/08

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, [...]

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