Articles Tagged: ethanol

The push back from stakeholders was not as severe in this, the second attempt by Gov. Kim Reynolds to create a statewide ethanol requirement.

Navigator, a Texas-based company, is proposing a 1,300-mile pipeline that would pass through 36 Iowa counties, including Linn, Benton, Cedar, Delaware and Iowa, capturing carbon dioxide at ethanol and fertilizer plants and transporting the liquid form of the gas to a sequestration site in western Illinois.

Summit Carbon Solutions is looking to build a five-state carbon pipeline that could help Iowa’s ethanol industry but has faced some opposition.

With climate change already knocking at our door, there’s a more urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases than 10 to 15 years down the road. That’s where ethanol comes in, according to industry proponents.

Her biofuels bargain underscores the political strategy embedded in the negotiations over massive new federal spending. While Democrats have set out to pass ambitious bills with historic expansions of the social safety net and their long-sought new programs, that's not how many politically vulnerable Democrats such as Axne are selling them at home

State officials and businesses alike are hopeful carbon capture pipelines “revolutionize” agriculture and other industries.

The decision deals a significant blow to the ethanol industry and corn farmers who grow the crop from which the fuel additive is made. They had anticipated increased demand through year-round sales of a higher blend.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Using his words, Iowa’s Republican U.S. senators are holding President Joe Biden accountable for his earlier commitments …

Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he will vote against President Joe Biden’s pick to be an assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over recent actions by the Biden administration related to clean water rules and biofuels.

Grassley joined fellow Iowa Republicans U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and Reps. Randy Feenstra, Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks in sending a letter to Biden urging him to uphold his promise to support biofuels.

Wichita, Kan.- based Flint Hills Resources is in “exclusive negotiations” to sell its biofuels business to POET of South Dakota , including its five Iowa ethanol plants

Iowa officials wary of long-term support for biofuels

But another of the governor’s priorities -- increasing ethanol -- likely will have to wait

Role of ethanol at home, adversaries abroad at stake in climate vow

The time is now, biofuel producers say