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Officials in Boone County in central Iowa are working to contain an ethanol spill from a leaking railroad tanker car. Boone County Emergency Management Coordinator Dave Morlan says the car is now in a rail yard on the west side of the county.

Morlan says from what they’ve been able to tell, one of the seals on the ethanol tanker came loose. He says it sounds like the spill is just within Boone County. Morlan says the tanker carries 30,000 gallons of ethanol. Morlan says there is a large pool of ethanol in the railyard, but he says it’s hard to tell how much ethanol is there because there is a lot of snow and the ethanol is going under the snow.

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Bill requiring ethanol only gas approved by senate committee

by O. Kay Henderson 02/11/10 8:54 AM

Iowa gas stations would only be allowed to sell ethanol-blended fuel if a bill approved by a Senate committee becomes law. The ethanol mandate would kick in next January with a few exceptions for boats, race cars, snowmobiles, and lawn mowers. Senate President Jack Kibbie, a Democrat from Emmetsburg, has been pushing the legislation for [...]

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Gulf Oil president says price should decide biofuel use

by Dar Danielson 01/26/10 3:46 AM

The president of Gulf Oil Company spoke to the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association summit Monday and said biofuels have a bright future — but gave what he admitted was an unorthodox view of their place in the nation’s energy supply. Joe Petrowski says he doesn’t believe developing biofuels should be about job creation.
Petrowski says creating [...]

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Vilsack touts “income opportunity” in energy bill

by O. Kay Henderson 01/1/10 1:00 AM

U.S. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says changes under consideration by those crafting an energy bill would help American farmers.
Petroleum-based fertilizers are used on much of U.S. cropland and farmers worry an energy bill that imposes financial penalties for businesses that use petroleum-based products would cause farming costs to spike.  
“I know that there’s a lot of [...]

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State approves horse racing schedule at Prairie Meadows

by Dar Danielson 11/13/09 11:58 AM

The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission approved its own horse racing schedule for the Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Altoona Thursday after turning down the schedule proposed by track administrators. The commission had to approve a schedule to renew the track’s license. Prairie Meadows administrators wanted to cut the quarter horse schedule in half [...]

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Farmers get look at equipment for cellulosic ethanol

by Radio Iowa Contributor 11/3/09 12:41 PM

Farmers near Emmetsburg are getting a look today at equipment used to harvest corn cobs for use in the next generation of ethanol production. Mike Roth is the program director for the biomass program for the company called POET. He says they’ll have harvest demonstrations and also equipment that farmers can look at and ask [...]

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Report shows drop in use of ethanol-blended gas

by Pat Curtis 11/2/09 10:50 AM

The executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association says he’s “stumped” by the results of a new report on ethanol sales. Monte Shaw says Iowa Department of Revenue figures for September show Iowa motorists chose E-10 only 71% of the time when fueling up.
That’s down from 75% in 2008 and is 9% below the [...]

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