Hormel Foods in Knoxville has been selected to participate in an environmental program by the DNR.

The 2016 Pollution Prevention Intern Program sponsors upper-level college and university students to work on-site at Iowa companies for 12- or 24-week paid internships to research solutions and implement pollution prevention strategies that will increase efficiency, reduce costs and help meet environmental goals.The program has managed to reduce waste by 377 million kilowatt hours of electricity, 219,000 tons of solid waste and more than one and half billion gallons of water.