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Des Moines Banned Lawn Watering, but Polluted Tap Water Keeps Flowing: Inside Iowa’s Nitrate Problem
Amid rising cancer rates, citizens are demanding Governor Reynolds take more meaningful action.
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From 'unswimmable' summers and polluted waterways to piles of dead pigs at pork plants, Iowa suffers seriously from the environmental impacts of factory farming. We report on it here.
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At an Iowa Pork Plant, Piles of Dead Pigs and Wafting Sulfur Dioxide
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Iowa’s Clean Water Advocates Are Reclaiming the Past to Protect the Future
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Iowa Slaughterhouse Routinely Pollutes Waterways With Excessive Waste, Advocacy Groups Allege
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Illegal Manure Pollution in Water — and Cancer — on the Rise in Iowa
A new report maps manure spills in Iowa, where factory farms produce 109 billion pounds of manure per year.
Climate•3 min read
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