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NASCAR Truck Series 2013 schedule
Channel Guide MagazineNASCAR Truck Series 2013 schedule begins on Feb. 22 with the Nextera Energy Resources 250 from Daytona International Speedway on SPEED. Download a FREE printable 2013 NASCAR TV schedule for the Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series and Camping World... -
Soybeans finally winning ground in South Dakota
PIERRE - They're a blip in the data when they first show up in South Dakota in the statistics from 1939. That's the year when a few farmers in the state plant a total of 2,000 acres of that new crop, soybeans. There's no record of how many acres they...Tags: Environmental Issues, Arable Farming, Renewable Energy
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Court says EPA overestimates biofuels production
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court has ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency is overestimating the amount of fuel that can be produced from grasses, wood and other nonfood plants in an effort to promote a fledgling biofuels industry. At...Tags: Gasoline Industry, Justice System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Barack Obama, American Petroleum
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Ethanol firm Gevo to buy back $15M of its stock
The owner of a Luverne, Minn., ethanol plant that's struggling to convert its production to a newer, higher-value alcohol said on Jan. 2 it will buy back $15 million in common stock this year. Shares of Gevo Inc., based in Englewood., Calif., have...Tags: Environmental Issues, Buyback, Ethanol, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Renewable Energy
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Local ethanol plants push production while others trimming
While ethanol plants in other parts of the country are cutting production or shutting down because of a down market, local plants are pushing production to their limits. It is not that the strategy is producing big profits, but it is allowing plants...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Poetry, Droughts, Watertown, Corporate Officers
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Mo. plant halts ethanol production, cites drought
ST. LOUIS - A central Missouri ethanol plant is suspending production Feb. 1, saying the extended drought has made it almost impossible to get enough corn to make the alternative fuel, a plant spokesman said recently. POET Biorefining plans to keep...Tags: Droughts, Natural Disasters, Environmental Issues, Ethanol, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Letter: Support ethanol
In response to Kenneth C. Blanchard's column Jan. 23, Mr. Blanchard blames most of the world's problems on the Democratic Party. Mr. Blanchard blames the liberal Democrats for developing the ethanol industry which is helping the environment by lowering...Tags: Environmental Issues, Ethanol, Politics, Petroleum Industry, Global Warming
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Wood touted as 'new' renewable fuel
Lee Richardson is a pioneer of sorts in taking a new look at a very old energy source.
The Wicomico County poultry farmer just finished installing a commercial-sized wood pellet stove to heat one of his chicken houses in Willards, east of Salisbury. When...Tags: Baltimore County, Wicomico County, Energy Saving, Montgomery County (Maryland), Perdue Farms
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Column: Be careful what you wish for
Modern liberals like the environment, and they care about improving the plight of the poor. Both concerns are laudable. It is evident, however, that the means by which they have pursued the one often have deplorable effects on the other. Biofuels are...Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, The New York Times, Tortillas, Guatemala
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Economist offers crop outlook at AFBF annual meeting in Nashville
The top two factors influencing crop markets in 2013 will be the weather and the potential for a rebound in demand, which diminished last year with drought-driven high prices, Chad Hart told attendees at the American Farm Bureau Federation's 94th Annual...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Human Interest, Environmental Issues, Natural Disasters, Finance
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NFU applauds EPA approval of grain sorghum under RFS
WASHINGTON - National Farmers Union (NFU) applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent announcement that it will qualify ethanol made from grain sorghum as an eligible biofuel under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). The EPA...Tags: Environmental Issues, Ethanol, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming
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Lowering emissions, raising red flags
We've all seen the movie: Some small, seemingly unrelated actions lead to dire and unintended consequences. It happens in real life too, especially in government. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard, a regulatory program established under Gov. Arnold...
Tags: Forestry and Timber, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Science and Technology
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