Amidst record-breaking floods in Northwest Iowa, environmental groups are warning of the potential health risks from flooded factory farms and manure runoff. “Factory farm waste poses a serious threat ...

Manure and pesticide runoff was likely to blame for a substantial fish kill last summer in a southern Minnesota stream, but its origin could not be pinpointed, a seven-month state investigation has ...

Late June 2024 brought flooding to the United States Midwest, with torrential rainfall pounding the region. Iowa was hit particularly hard, prompting President Joe Biden to declare flooding in the ...

DECORAH, Iowa (WKBT) -- Manure from an animal feeding operation in Winneshiek County is to blame for miles of dead fish discovered Tuesday. That's according to the Iowa DNR, who says they are in the ...

An eastern Iowa company that applied more than 1.5 million gallons of manure to a field and contaminated a nearby creek in 2021 did not take steps to stop the contamination after it was discovered, ...

Runoff contaminated by manure flowed into an underground tile intake in Winneshiek County in March. It killed more than 100,000 fish in Dry Run Creek. (Photo courtesy of the Iowa Department of Natural ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will study whether to toughen regulation of large livestock farms that release manure and other pollutants into waterways.

Nothing says summer camp like swimming in a poop-polluted river, right? The Conestoga River and its parks and wildlife were a ...

LOS ANGELES, California, October 2, 2008 (ENS) - Six dairies in the Chino, California area have been ordered to comply with California Regional Water Quality Control Board permit requirements by the U ...