Entries Tagged as 'Environment'
Old Energy Meets New Energy
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
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Iowa’s News Heroes
June 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Iowa journalists deserve a lot of credit and time to catch their breath. They have been covering, almost nonstop, the tragic weather we’ve been having since the monster F5 tornado swept through Parkersburg, New Hartford, and Dunkerton on May 25. Then came the floods. This has been a bad several weeks for sleep if you [...]
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Greenwashing Dirty Coal
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

It happened again. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier had a special “green” tabloid section in their Sunday, April 20 newspaper, with big full-page ad by LS Power. After doing the same thing last year, it appears that Courier is operating in an irony-free zone where “green” and “coal-fired power plant” can mean the same thing.
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Fool’s Gold: Rushing to Build a Coal-Burning Power Plant in Iowa
September 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Waterloo Mayor Tim Hurley was an easy mark. Fresh from the success of bringing casino gambling to the Cedar Valley, this high roller muscled through the local zoning decision for LS Power because he was convinced the power plant would be another “gold mine.†And perhaps it really will be.
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