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The Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that the U.S. will allow year-round sales in several Midwestern states in 2025. Environmental advocates, however, say the decision is a step in the wrong direction.
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Kansas has three carbon dioxide pipelines. Next, it could get two carbon sequestration wells, linked to ethanol plants. Here’s what we know.
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Three companies want to capture carbon dioxide from Midwestern ethanol plants, transport it by pipeline and store it underground. Many in the ethanol industry claim it’s essential to the industry’s survival. Environmentalists and even farmers argue the pipelines are a boon for the industry — not a real solution for climate change.
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Producers will make more than 15 billion gallons of ethanol from corn, complying with the new renewable fuels mandate from the EPA.
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The Renewable Fuel Standard, which requires blending some renewable fuel into gasoline, may be contributing more to climate change than it’s helping.
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Boosters of ethanol and other renewable fuels are holding out hope that the Biden administration will be friendlier to the industry than the Trump administration.
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Most farmers haven't had a single good year since President Trump took office, and Trump’s policies on trade, immigration and ethanol are part of the…
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At Hummel’s Nissan in Des Moines, Kevin Caldwell sells the all-electric Leaf. Driving one is basically the same as driving a typical gasoline or gas...
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President Donald Trump’s administration will “unleash the power of E15,” allowing the 15 percent gasoline-ethanol blend to be sold year-round. The...
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Advanced biofuels have been touted as the next step beyond the corn-based ethanol that’s the bulk of the country’s renewable fuel for cars and trucks.…
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On a sweltering summer morning, Rob Mitchell surveys a plot of switchgrass at a research field near Lincoln, Nebraska. The grass is lush, green and nearly…
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The Trump Administration is voicing its support for the ethanol industry, but without specifics it is hard to say what that means exactly for Midwest…