Missouri weighs penalties against an Iowa farm cooperative behind a 265,000-gallon fertilizer spill. Investigators found ...

Iowa DNR asks attorney general take over enforcement in NEW Co-op spill in Red Oak and consider harsher penalties for massive ...

At the Iowa Environmental Protection Committee’s next meeting on May 22, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources will ...

Iowa DNR Fish Dead in River Nishnabotna River NEW Cooperative Fort Dodge Iowa Attorney General Lawsuit Enforcement River ...

Iowa Code states that those liable for polluting water of the state are in violation of state law and should be liable to pay ...

It’s rare for the DNR to ask the AG’s office to step in on enforcement. And the Environmental Protection Commission, a ...

The spill at NEW Cooperative in Red Oak happened over a weekend from March 9 to 11, until it was discovered that Monday ...

A farmers’ co-op employee left open a valve on a clogged fertilizer line that — for an unknown reason — became unclogged when ...

More than 60 Iowans have signed a letter to the state’s environmental chief asking her to investigate a massive nitrogen fertilizer spill in March that killed about 750,000 fish for 50 miles along the ...

But that pipe had developed a crystalline blockage before the spill, and an employee apparently left its valve open, Martens said. Parts of the fertilizer — a urea ammonium nitrate solution that ...

A co-op employee left open a valve on a clogged fertilizer line that -- for an unknown reason -- became unclogged when no one was present.