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Iowa: "State May Be Sued Over Water Quality Issues" [1]

"Iowa’s largest water utility may soon file a lawsuit challenging the state’s voluntary approach to dealing with farm fertilizer run-off."

Agriculture [2]
Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
Source: Radio Iowa [7], 01/08/2015

Missouri: "Health Risks From West Lake Landfill Still Unclear" [8]

"How dangerous is the radioactive West Lake Landfill?"

Pollution [3]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch [9], 01/05/2015

"Diabetes Drug Found in Lake Michigan Could Harm Fish, Researchers Say" [10]

"There is more than one way to measure prescription drug use."

Chemicals [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Fish & Fisheries [13]
Water & Oceans [4]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel [14], 01/02/2015

From Classroom to Bookshelf: Publishing a DIY Guide to Local Environmental Issues [15]

In this excerpt from the latest issue of SEJournal (Fall), Webster University journalism professor Don Corrigan shares how he used his classroom as a focal point for generating material with student inquiry and invitations to local experts, resulting in publication of a guide to St. Louis' environmental issues — and how the book can serve as a template for other professors to write a book for other states or regions.

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National (U.S.) [17]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
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N Dakota Regulators Tell Producers to Filter Crude of Flammable Liquids [18]

"North Dakota regulators on Tuesday ordered producers pumping oil from the Bakken shale field to begin removing flammable natural gas liquids from their product before shipment in an effort to prevent deadly explosions involving trains."

Disasters [19]
Energy & Fuel [20]
Transportation [21]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
Source: NY Times [22], 12/11/2014

"Annual Seed Harvest Keeps Wild Prairies Alive" [23]

"EL DORADO SPRINGS, Mo. — This year's effort to collect wildflower and grass seeds from surviving prairie remnants has wrapped up."

Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [25]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [17]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
Source: AP [26], 12/01/2014

"Advocates Hope Federal Coal Ash Rules Spur Oversight in Missouri" [27]

"Missouri environmental advocates who have fought for stricter oversight of coal ash waste are eagerly awaiting the mid-December release of new federal rules that will require, for the first time, detailed data."

Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Politics [28]
Pollution [3]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch [29], 12/01/2014

"The Downside of the Boom" [30]

"North Dakota took on the oversight of a multibillion-dollar oil industry with a regulatory system built on trust, warnings and second chances."

Energy & Fuel [20]
Environmental Politics [28]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
Source: NY Times [31], 11/24/2014

"A Year After N.D. Oil Spill, Cleanup Goes On" [32]

"BISMARCK, N.D. -- One year after a pipeline rupture flooded a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota with more than 20,000 barrels of crude, Tesoro Corp. is still working around the clock cleaning up the oil spill -- one of the largest to happen onshore in U.S. history."

Energy & Fuel [20]
Pollution [3]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
Source: AP [33], 10/21/2014

Opinion: "The Candidate Who Wants More Pollution in Iowa" [34]

"Iowa voted for Barack Obama in the last two presidential elections, but now it is seriously considering electing a United States Senate candidate with a hard-right proposal that is truly radical: abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency."

Environmental Politics [28]
Public [5]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [6]
Source: NY Times [35], 10/14/2014

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