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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 [...]

In the midst of a global recession and a decades-long slump in American manufacturing, President Barack Obama spent part of Earth Day in central Iowa defending an ambitious policy agenda reflecting the view that economic prosperity is intertwined with energy security.

It’s time for the Iowa Energy Center to update its Web page. A report released today by the American Wind Energy Association notes that, for the first time, Iowa has surpassed California to become second in the nation in wind power generating capacity.
The new listings, based on 2008 year-end numbers, have Texas in the number [...]

Despite government efforts to prop up the wind energy industry, financial uncertainty has been blamed for the loss of 58 more ‘green-collar’ jobs in West Branch.
Acciona Windpower, a subsidiary of Spain-based Acciona Energy, announced Friday that it would cut the jobs at its only U.S. plant.

Kansas-based Trade Wind Energy hopes to place 335 wind generators on the Washington County skyline, a project with an estimated cost of more than $1 billion.

MidAmerican Energy is developing a 100-turbine wind-power project in Carroll County that will stretch from just inside Carroll’s two-mile limit to Breda.

The $300 million turbine project started in recent days with the construction of access roads and other initial work, said Tom Budler, Mid-American’s general manager for wind power.

MidAmerican plans to move swiftly on the [...]

Iowa is on the cusp of becoming the “Silicon Valley of the Midwest,” and interest in developing businesses related to renewable fuels is high, Iowa Gov. Chet Culver said Wednesday.

“We’ve made a good name for ourselves across the nation and around the world in terms of being very serious about job creation and leading the [...]

Visitors to the Iowa State Fair this year will no doubt see the new wind turbine spinning high above the highest hill at the fairgrounds. The working wind turbine is a new addition to the fair this year, standing 133 feet above the fairgrounds and capable of generating .5 megawatts of electricity. The structure [...]