by Diane Rosenberg, JFAN Executive Director Fifty years ago it became crystal clear that American’s waterways were in dire straits. Fires...

JFAN's in-depth analysis of the 2022 DNR Impaired Waters list.

Our Water At Risk Wednesday, April 3 at 7:30 pm Fairfield Public Library Free - donations welcome Iowa has some of the dirtiest waters in...

Since November, seven Iowa counties have either passed resolutions or written letters to the state legislature calling for a factory farm...

Webster, Allamakee, Winneshiek, Pocahontas, Dickinson and Buchanan*: What do these six counties have in common? Their recent call for a...

Iowa has over 9,000 factory farms confining the vast majority of 20 million Iowa hogs and a record 754 water impairments, and those numbers

The sow facility, located in Van Buren County, Iowa near the Des Moines River, is one of the largest factory farms in Iowa, and annually pro

Runoff Fouls Stream after Field Application Manure runoff polluted an unnamed tributary of Stump Creek near Batavia in May according to a...