We finally have some things to discuss, some real science,” said LACMRERS Director Doug Schnoebelen. The second year we’ve collected some data will be able to get that back to look at the results. “The first year was a lot of planning and field campaigns. This marked the second annual meeting for what will be a five year project. Carver Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station (LACMRERS) in Muscatine hosted the IML-CZO conference which began Tuesday and ends today. This Midwestern project is part of a nation-wide project known as the Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) an effort by the National Science Foundation to “ the zone where rock meets life.” The Midwestern project is called the CZO-IML (Intensely Managed Landscapes) and focuses on watersheds and lands in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. Roughly 30 students, professors, and researchers from six different institutions met in Muscatine this week to discuss a collaborative research effort to improve land, water, and air quality in the Midwest. From left, Schnoebelen, Praveen Kumar, Thanos Papanicolaou, and Chris Wilson. ĭoug Schnoebelen explains early 20th century mussel production along the Mississippi River during the CZO-IML conference on July 29, 2015. The Clean Power Plan is expected to be finalized later this summer. Pick added that electricity prices in Spencer are already the lowest in the state and again wouldn’t be affected by EPA’s plan. Pick cited that the two plants which serve Spencer are already up to efficiency standards so the plan wouldn’t change much. However despite the findings in the two studies, the Spencer Daily Reporter reports that Spencer (Iowa) Municipal Utilities general manager Steve Pick doesn’t expect the plan to have much of an impact on electricity bills for his customers. The other report, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, used modeling to predict that EPA’s plan would lead to lower electricity bills and could also lead to job creation and other economic benefits.
“Iowa households taking advantage of energy-efficiency programs under the proposed Clean Power Plan would save $83 a month on average and their bills would be $41 a month in 2030,” principal economist Elizabeth Stanton told the Public News Service. household $35 per month on electricity bills by 2030, with even greater savings for Iowa consumers.
The study concluded that participation in energy efficient programs could save the average U.S. Synapse Energy Economics conducted the first study which examined the projected economic impact of EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Two recent studies find that the Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to reduce carbon emissions could lead to lower electricity bills for Iowa consumers.
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