Iowa Capital Dispatch

CO2 pipeline advocate Monte Shaw, head of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, says Nebraska's new pipeline makes it, not Iowa, the ethanol king.

“Iowa has worn the crown,” Shaw says. “We have been the world’s best place to turn corn into ethanol, and we’ve held that crown for 25 years. Last week, we got knocked off."

Iowa biofuels and corn experts are congratulating Nebraska for its first shipments of carbon dioxide on the Tallgrass Trailblazer pipeline, but say the development means Iowa is no longer king at turning corn into ethanol.

Monte Shaw, the executive director of Iowa Renewable Fuels Association and an advocate of CO2 pipelines, said now that Nebraska has a functioning one, ethanol plants in that state can take advantage of lucrative tax credits from t

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