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Drought hits the Midwest, threatening crops and the world’s food supply

BY: - June 23, 2023

City leaders in Storm Lake, a rural community of 11,000 in Northwest Iowa, are asking residents not to wash their cars or water their yards and gardens during the hottest part of the day. The city also has cut back on watering public recreational spaces, such as ballfields and golf courses. These are highly unusual […]

Lack of bidders increasing costs to plug abandoned oil and gas wells in Kentucky

BY: - December 5, 2022

Contractors  have started plugging some of the thousands of oil and gas wells abandoned by the fossil fuel industry across Kentucky, using new federal funding. But a lack of companies able or willing to bid on the work is increasing costs, a Kentucky official said recently.  Kentucky received an initial $25 million grant through the […]