Iowa faces a reckoning over water quality and cancer rates in midterm campaigns
Iowa is grappling with water quality and cancer rates, bringing these issues to the forefront of state politics. These topics have typically been politically sensitive due to Iowa's powerful agricultural industry. Chemical fertilizers and animal waste contain nitrates and phosphorus that can get washed with rain or snowmelt into the state’s rivers. That affects Iowa’s more liberal urban centers…
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