Alliant Faces Audit Over Wind Farm and Station Costs
The Iowa Utilities Board ordered a full management efficiency audit of Interstate Power & Light after findings that Alliant undercut returns on investments at the Sixth Street Generating Station and overran costs at Whispering Willow Wind Farm. The board limited charges to customers for past investments and cited a lone project manager without oversight. Gov. Culver criticized interim rate charges while the economy improves.
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Franklin County
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Iowa
Office of Consumer Advocate
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Interstate Power & Light
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Chet Culver
Tam
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Iowa State UNI and UI enrollments shaped by distance and programs
Enrollment patterns show proximity and available programs steer students to Iowa universities. ISU attracts most in-state students from Polk County while UNI and UI rely on home counties like Dallas and Linn for large shares. Regional pipelines from community colleges and county populations influence where students enroll.
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Iowa State
Mike Barron
UCLA
Higher Education Research Institute
Chronicle of Higher Education
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Muscatine Community College
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Des Moines
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Missouri
Regents Universities
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Linn
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Dubuque
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Woodbury
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BP faces civil penalties in Gulf of Mexico spill case
Government files civil suit seeking removal costs and damages under the Oil Pollution Act and civil penalties under the Clean Water Act. The action targets BP and multiple partners over the megasized spill, with potential fines ranging up to 21.1 billion dollars if gross negligence is found. BP says it has already paid cleanup costs and will cooperate with investigations.
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Halliburton
Gulf
Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans
Justice Department
Highet
University of Michigan
United States
Anadarko Exploration & Production LP
Anadarko Petroleum Corp
Moex Offshore 2007 LLC
Triton Asset Leasing Gmbh
Transocean Holdings LLC
Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc
Transocean Deepwater Inc
Transocean
QBE Underwriting Ltd
Lloyd’s Syndicate
ISU Bookstore sells multilingual shirts record enrollment rise
ISU sold Arabic Chinese Korean and Spanish language shirts at the Iowa State University Bookstore for 12 dollars after trips to Ames to scout inventory. The Arabic shirts sold out while Chinese Korean and Spanish shirts shrink. ISU set a fall international enrollment record with 3327 students.
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Iowa State University
ISU
Amy DeLashmutt
DeLashmutt
Scott King
US Office of International Students and Scholars
Iowa
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