Investigate Midwest (Page 239)

BP cuts funding for ‘most promising’ biofuel

With major cuts in funding, the future is unclear for cellulosic biofuels, an energy source researchers have called “the most promising” of all biofuels. Biofuels are an alternative energy source to petroleum fuel and can be produced from corn, oil or plant material. The fuels are appealing to those

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/ 20 Aug 2015

BP cuts funding for ‘most promising’ biofuel

Three things you may not know about ethanol

Every time you put gas in your car, you’re adding a bit of renewable fuel to your tank, as well. You may not notice since renewable fuels are government-mandated, and they only save you a few pennies per gallon of gasoline, according to industry experts. But behind the scenes, there is complex polic

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/ 20 Aug 2015

Three things you may not know about ethanol

Advanced biofuels face uncertain future

The delay in proposed renewable fuel minimums by the Environmental Protection Agency may have hindered the future of advanced biofuels, the kind of cellulosic ethanol formulas made from tall grasses and stalks. Although researchers tout advanced biofuels' environmental benefits, the uncertain policy

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/ 20 Aug 2015

Corn ethanol production to stay strong despite federal cuts

Industry experts expect corn ethanol production to stay strong despite a proposal to reduce federal renewable fuel requirements. The Environmental Protection Agency proposed to reduce renewable fuel mandates for 2014 through 2016, lessening what it initially slated in 2005.

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/ 20 Aug 2015

Corn ethanol production to stay strong despite federal cuts

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: How The Gazette Dug Into High State Tax Credit For Private Schools

The Gazette's investigative reporter Erin Jordan explains the reporting she did to reveal why some Iowans are concerned about a generous tax credit Student Tuition Organizations get to assist students at private schools.

By Clare McCarthy

/ 20 Aug 2015

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: How The Gazette Dug Into High State Tax Credit For Private Schools

Wide Variety On How States Handle Medicinal Marijuana: News21 Report

A News21 investigation found there are as many ways to deal with medical marijuana as there are states that have legalized it.

By Katie Campbell, Anne M. Shearer, Lauren Del Valle and Rilwan Balogun/News21

/ 19 Aug 2015

Wide Variety On How States Handle Medicinal Marijuana: News21 Report

Your Chance To Talk With Local Editors About Your Community Newspapers

IowaWatch will host forums on Sept. 14 and 15 in North Liberty and Iowa City, respectively, that give the public a chance to talk with local newspaper editors about decisions editors make about news, and how to get news into the papers.

By IowaWatch

/ 19 Aug 2015

Your Chance To Talk With Local Editors About Your Community Newspapers

Listen To The KXIC Podcast: Regular IowaWatch Appearance Features Investigation Into Lake Algae

IowaWatch assistant editor and data analyst Lauren Mills and Iowa City Press-Citizen reporter Stephen Gruber-Miller were guests on the Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, "Your Town" segment of Jay Capron's morning show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City.

By IowaWatch

/ 19 Aug 2015

Listen To The KXIC Podcast: Regular IowaWatch Appearance Features Investigation Into Lake Algae

Archer Daniels Midland wins arrest warrants over missing rice money

Arrest warrants have been issued for a Nicaraguan grains business owner and his daughter after the pair failed to pay $2.5 million to Archer Daniels Midland for import contracts. The Nicaraguan grains business allegedly failed to pay millions of dollars to Chicago-based agriculture superpower ADM fo

By Robert Holly

/ 18 Aug 2015

Archer Daniels Midland wins arrest warrants over missing rice money

U.S. cities sue Monsanto over chemical pollution

San Jose and Spokane have filed lawsuits seeking damages associated from chemical pollution allegedly caused decades ago by a former version of the agribusiness giant Monsanto. The two public nuisance lawsuits claim the seed company should be on the hook for water contamination costs related to dang

By Robert Holly

/ 17 Aug 2015

U.S. cities sue Monsanto over chemical pollution

Medicinal Marijuana Movement Pumping Money Into Bids For Legal Pot: News21 Report

While Iowa wrestles with how to handle medicinal marijuana other states are moving ahead on legalizing the drug -- for medicinal use but also for recreational use. This is a report made available to IowaWatch and other news organizations by the News21 team.

By Brianna Gurciullo, Karen Mawdsley and Katie Campbell/News21

/ 16 Aug 2015

Medicinal Marijuana Movement Pumping Money Into Bids For Legal Pot: News21 Report

Strangers In Buggy Rob Bank

It was an early spring morning in 1895 when two strangers in a buggy made their way into town at Adel just west of Des Moines. By the time they left, two town folk lay close to death and the bank was short an undetermined amount of cash.

By Cheryl Mullenbach/Iowa Stories

/ 15 Aug 2015