A tiny Iowa paper just won a Pulitzer Prize for tackling farm pollution.

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By Nathanael JohnsonApr 11, 2017, 5:02 pm136 pts
This year’s prize for editorial writing went to Art Cullen at the Storm Lake Times. His winning series of editorials was about the fertilizer runoff that contaminates rivers that provide drinking water for the people of Des Moines. The Des Moines Water Works got tired of spending millions of dollars to filter…

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