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UPDATE: Thursday, Mar 30, 2023 · 6:44:18 PM +00:00 · FlannelGuy From Minnesota Public Radio: Updated 1 p.m. A train derailment sent 22 cars carrying ethanol and corn syrup off the tracks early Thursday morning in western Minnesota, leading authorities...
by FlannelGuy
on Thu Mar 30, 2023 at 09:55 AM PDT
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A planned carbon capture pipeline that would be the largest of its kind faces opposition from communities in every state the 2,000-mile pipeline and its accompanying facilities would extend into. Residents in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota,...
by April Siese
on Wed Oct 26, 2022 at 11:49 AM PDT
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When you bear hug Trump, this is what you get: ‘Iowa senator Joni Ernst signed on to a letter begging EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler – whom she voted to put into office – to reject retroactive biofuel blending waivers harmful to many Iowa farmers....
by poopdogcomedy
on Wed Jul 01, 2020 at 10:24 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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Yet another blow to our food supply delivery system. From Reuters: NEW YORK/CHICAGO (Reuters) - A slew of U.S. ethanol plants have shut down as fuel demand has collapsed during the coronavirus outbreak, and meatpackers have been hit by a worrying...
by Pakalolo
on Wed Apr 08, 2020 at 06:11 AM PDT
with 104 Recommends
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Since the beginning of the administration, the Trump team seems to have gone out of its way to hurt American farmers despite (as any New York Times story featuring a diner will suggest) farmers' ...
by Hunter
on Thu Oct 03, 2019 at 07:00 PM PDT
with 113 Recommends
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Governing is hard. People expect things, and when you mess up, they complain. And Donald Trump has had just about enough of this ethanol situation he created. “The president is tired of dealing with this,” Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley told reporters...
by Kerry Eleveld
on Tue Sep 17, 2019 at 04:49 PM PDT
with 107 Recommends
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After the Trump administration screwed farmers by allowing some 30 oil refineries exemptions from blending ethanol into fuel, Donald Trump had news Thursday for devastated corn farmers. "The Farmers are going to be so happy when they see what we are...
by Kerry Eleveld
on Thu Aug 29, 2019 at 11:46 AM PDT
with 117 Recommends
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Donald Trump’s trade war and ethanol policy are costing farmers big-time, but they’re still sticking by their man—for now. Farm bankruptcies and loan delinquencies are up, and agricultural exports to China are plummeting, from $24 billion in 2014 to...
by Laura Clawson
on Tue Aug 27, 2019 at 06:25 AM PDT
with 110 Recommends
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Donald Trump’s shutdown may be yet another way he’s doing farmers no favors. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing, in this case. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency was working on a plan to allow the year-round sale of E15 ethanol, which is...
by Laura Clawson
on Fri Jan 04, 2019 at 09:34 AM PST
with 46 Recommends
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You know your party is facing stiff headwinds in a state when the deep-red district of a fire-breather like Iowa Rep. Steve King gets downgraded to “likely Republican” by Cook Political Report.
With his administration’s tariff war wreaking havoc in...
by Kerry Eleveld
on Tue Oct 09, 2018 at 05:45 PM PDT
with 70 Recommends
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Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is "about as swampy as you can get," says one GOP senator, adding, "if the president wants to drain the swamp, he needs to take a look at his own cabinet."
Another Republican senator...
by Kerry Eleveld
on Tue Jun 05, 2018 at 11:24 AM PDT
with 86 Recommends
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On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. agreed to provide a “transcribed interview” for members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
On Wednesday, by an astounding coincidence, Donald Trump called the chairman of that very same committee to talk about one of the...
by Mark Sumner
on Thu Aug 31, 2017 at 08:49 AM PDT
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Here we go again. Bret Stephens, apparently riding high on a wave of hate-clicks, has another column that yet again deceives readers with a bait and switch.
In his second column, Stephens takes on ethanol, a worthy topic for inquiry: the benefits...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
on Fri May 05, 2017 at 07:31 AM PDT
with 8 Recommends
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Campaign Action
Meet the Swamp.
Since Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor, was named by President Trump as a special adviser on regulatory matters, he has been busy working behind the scenes to try to revamp an obscure Environmental Protection...
by Hunter
on Mon Mar 27, 2017 at 06:00 PM PDT
with 87 Recommends
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On a Sunday in October 1981 (either the one before or the one after the first World Food Day, www.worldfooddayusa.org/...), I spoke in a Southern Baptist pulpit for the first and last time. The topic of my talk was the immorality of using U.S. grain to...
by Galtisalie
on Sun Jan 22, 2017 at 03:00 PM PST
with 21 Recommends
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Last time I wrote about carbon sequestration, I commented that I always viewed it as “one of those "10 years off" technologies”. Something that sounds cool, game-changing, but for some reason(s) it was too hard to pull off on a large scale, wasn’t...
by Aximill
on Tue Oct 18, 2016 at 10:42 AM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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Being a presidential election year, it’s no surprise that TV ads are getting political. But two new campaigns demonstrate it’s not just the election that’s getting attention, as climate and energy become important issues.
In California, a coalition...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
on Thu Aug 11, 2016 at 07:22 AM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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Unfortunately, it sometimes takes me a while to get around to reading each new issue of Harper’s . Yesterday morning, I finally read the cover feature of the February 2016 issue, “The Trouble ...
by Geenius at Wrok
on Fri Feb 05, 2016 at 04:00 AM PST
with 8 Recommends
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Whatever you want, suckers.
Don't like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's stance on ...
by Hunter
on Tue Mar 10, 2015 at 02:30 PM PDT
with 37 Recommends
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What do declining oil prices mean for alternative fueled vehicles, plug-in hybrids and EVs? If anything is to be learned from the past periods where gasoline prices have dropped precipitously it is ...
by joelado
on Fri Jan 09, 2015 at 07:19 AM PST
with 5 Recommends
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