Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW Cooperative has an expansive site on the west edge of Red Oak. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch) A farmers’ co-op ...

Dead fish on the East Nishnabotna after the fertilizer spill. (DNR photo) The State Environmental Protection Commission voted today to refer the case of the New Cooperative fertilizer spill on the ...

The sound you hear may be Iowa officials sweeping the investigation our largest fish kill and river murder under the rug. To remind you, on a Friday in early March a NEW Cooperative employee in Red ...

RED OAK, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - A community-led water organization has filed a lawsuit against NEW Cooperative, Inc., for a 2024 fertilizer spill into the East Nishnabotna River that resulted ...

A group called the Nishnabotna Water Defenders will meet Sunday in Red Oak to review the recent settlement for last year’s fertilizer spill at Red Oak co-op that killed hundreds of thousands of fish.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Iowa — The Iowa Environmental Protection Commission has voted to refer the company responsible for March’s historic fertilizer spill in the East Nishnabotna River to the attorney ...

SHE’LL BE ABLE TO DO THAT. MORE NEWS IOWA INVESTIGATORS WANT YOU TO AVOID THE WEST NISHNABOTNA RIVER AFTER PETROLEUM IS RELEASED NEAR AVOCA. THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES SAYS THE PETROLEUM CAME ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Iowa — In March, about 1,500 tons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer spilled into the East Nishnabotna River, leaving nearly 750,000 fish dead. That accounts for nearly all the fish in ...

The eyes of dead fish and the message “know what you drink” adorn a new billboard near Avoca that urges Iowans to monitor nitrate levels in their water. The billboard is the first of several that the ...

Neil Hamilton is emeritus professor of law at Drake University and former director of the Agricultural Law Center. The sound you hear may be Iowa officials sweeping the investigation our largest fish ...