The Iowa Power Fund board of directors will hold the first of three regular meetings to be held around the state on July 9 in Jefferson. This meeting, as well as the other two summer meetings of the Power Fund directors, will be followed by an evening public forum on energy issues.

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The Associated Press reports that Michigan’s Mackinac Bridge is moving toward energy efficiency. The Mackinac Bridge Authority says it will power down computers at night and on weekends; decorative lights will turn off at 1 a.m.; and wattage will be reduced at the toll plaza. The measures will reduce energy costs by 11 percent or $13,000 a year.

The National Parks Conservation Association has listed 10 national parks as at risk to coal-plant pollution. While many were aware of the threat to North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park, two South Dakota parks made the list—the Badlands and Wind Cave.  ...read more »