In 2025, Iowa Environmental Council worked with Woodbury County residents to install air quality monitors in the county. A year later, air quality data shows the county frequently has acute air pollution events.  The council analyzed data from surrounding polluters and found that fossil fuel combustion from local coal-fired power plants, emissions from local processing […]

A group of environmental organizations allege in a lawsuit that the Iowa Department of Natural Resources granted illegal discharge permits to a coal plant and its landfill in Ottumwa.  The lawsuit, filed by Environmental Law & Policy Center, Iowa Environmental Council and Sierra Club, follows several years of actions between the environmental groups, DNR and […]

BOONE – In a conference room at the Ericson Public Library Tuesday, cancer survivors, farmers, elected officials and community activists from Boone County discussed the things they have done to reduce their exposure to carcinogens and the things they hope will change in Iowa to help lower the state’s high cancer rates.  The discussion in […]