by O. Kay Henderson | Jan 31, 2024 | News, Politics & Government
If a bill in the Iowa House becomes law, a group of legislators could force lawmakers to vote on whether the proposed carbon capture pipelines can get state government permission to seize property for the project. Twenty-one members of the Iowa House or 11 members of...
by Dar Danielson | Jan 30, 2024 | Agriculture, Business, News
Summit Carbon Solutions is partnering with a company that operates 17 ethanol plants in Iowa and South Dakota. Summit says it is partnering with POET and its 12 facilities in Iowa and five in South Dakota to capture, transport, and store 4.7 million metric tons of...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jan 11, 2024 | News, Politics & Government
Two Republican presidential candidates appeared this morning at an annual event that was a flashpoint in the 2016 Iowa Caucus campaign. Eight years ago at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit, then-Governor Terry Branstad announced he did not want Texas Senator Ted Cruz to...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Dec 11, 2023 | News, Politics & Government
Officials in a northern Iowa county are evaluating last week’s federal court ruling that permanently blocks Shelby and Story County ordinances that would have restricted where hazardous liquid pipelines may be located. Kossuth County Supervisor Carter Nath of Lu...
by O. Kay Henderson | Dec 6, 2023 | News, Politics & Government
A federal judge has permanently blocked two Iowa counties from enforcing ordinances that would have set restrictions for carbon pipelines. The ordinances in Shelby and Story Counties set zones around homes, schools and city limits through which pipelines were not to...