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Chris Jones Campaigns to Clean Up Iowa’s Water

Three years ago Chris Jones was a decorated research engineer at the University of Iowa, where he directed Iowa’s network of stream pollution monitors and published details about state water quality in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Secure in his academic perch in 110-year-0ld Trowbridge Hall, Jones also contributed to his university-sponsored blog, where he prepared aggressive, masterfully written, and widely read reports that identified agriculture as the primary source of the state’s calamitous water pollution.   In a nation increasingly averse to truth-telling, Jones was well aware that he was poking the biggest bear in Iowa […]

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