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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 Utilities Board heard testimony last week on a proposed Alliant Energy coal plant in Marshalltown, Iowa.

Among those testifying in support of the plant was Iowa Valley Community College District Chancellor Tim Wynes. He supports the building of the 650-megawatt facility because of “the economic development that will come with the plant,” which he [...]

Dr. James E. Hansen, the NASA scientist who is world-renowned for his work on global climate research, will return to Iowa next week when he appears before the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB). Hansen will again lobby for a ban on new coal plant construction and make stops in Des Moines and Iowa City to join [...]

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 [...]

[Video] In 1930, Merle Bell was born in the same house where his grandparents died, on the same farm, the same 40 acres where he and his family, as he puts it, “sustained,” themselves through the Great Depression.

It’s also the same acreage that the city of Waterloo may annex to build a 750-megawatt coal plant.  [...]