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CASCADE, Iowa — Cascade community and business leaders gathered inside Legion Hall recently for Cascade Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner, where three businesses took home hardware honoring their work. ....
IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH Fuel retailers and trucking groups criticized the latest version of a proposal to set state biofuel standards, clashing during a Thursday morning meeting with agriculture groups that support the bill. “This bill, as written, is detrimental to the retail industry and consumers at large,” said Jason McDermott, owner of several Iowa convenience stores and the McDermott Oil Company. Lawmakers plan to amend Senate File 549 to match a proposal in the House by Rep. Lee Hein, R-Monticello. The bill will require Iowa fuel retailers to sell E-15, gasoline with a 15% ethanol blend, by 2026. Farming groups supported the proposal. Iowa is the nation’s top provider of both corn and ethanol, but much of Iowa’s ethanol is sold out of state. Mindy Larsen-Poldberg, director of government relations for the Iowa Corn Growers Association, said the group “enthusiastically and wholeheartedly” supported the bill. ....
Radio Iowa You are here: Home Speaker says Iowa Renewable Fuels Standard a ‘difficult push’ in 2021 Dan Dawson The chairman of a key committee says a “complicated proposal” to expand use of ethanol and biodiesel in Iowa hasn’t been “killed” for the year, but Senator Dan Dawson says it’s not “greased for passage” either. “What the future looks like, I cannot tell,” Dawson said Thursday. “…There’s a lot more work to be done on this before we find any consensus.” Dawson was among a handful of Senators who listened to feedback on the plan for about an hour yesterday. It began with Logan Shine, an advisor to Governor Kim Reynolds, suggesting critics were spreading “misinformation” about what Reynolds has called a Renewable Fuels Standard for Iowa. ....
April 30, 2021 Des Moines, Iowa The chairman of a key committee says a complicated proposal to expand use of ethanol and biodiesel in Iowa hasn’t been killed for the year, but Senator Dan Dawson says it’s not greased for passage either. (as said) “What the future looks like, I cannot tell,” Dawson said. “…There’s a lot more work to be done on this before we find any consensus.” Dawson was among a handful of Senators who listened to feedback on the plan for about an hour Thursday. It began with Logan Shine, an advisor to Governor Kim Reynolds, suggesting critics were spreading misinformation about what Reynolds has called a Renewable Fuels Standard for Iowa. ....