Ethanol plants like this Adkins Energy LLC plant in Lena, Ill. use an average of four gallons of water per gallon of fuel they produce. When irrigated corn is used that number can balloon to nearly 1,000 gallons of water. (Photo by Rob Runyan)
By Rob Runyan/Medill
Watergy
No, it’s not the newest vitamin-enhanced thirst quencher on the […]
Water resources finally get their day in Congress
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · Barack, Barack Obama, Bart Gordon, Committee on Science and Technology, Congress, corn, corn prices, Election 2008, Energy, energy independence, energy security, ethanol, John McCain, policy, renewable energy, Renewable Fuel Standard, RFS, Rick Perry, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Texas, The National Water Research and Development Initiative, water, watergy
A Big Yeehaw for Wind Power in the Texas Panhandle?
July 18th, 2008 · No Comments
By Dori Glanz and Rupa Shenoy, Medill
Pampa, TX—The folks up in the Texas Panhandle still hang on to the lifestyle of the great state’s past, and Texas kitsch surrounds you here in “the top of Texas.” In the Palo Duro Canyon State Park, we hitched a ride to our car from a cowboy with an […]
Tags: · Canadian, engergy, gas, megawatt, oil, Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Pampa, Panhandle, Pickens, ranch, Republican, Texas, turbines, wind power
Farmers Regroup, Assess Corn Damage in Iowa after Floods; Impact on Ethanol Already Felt
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Flooded farms in Iowa may have far-reaching effects on corn prices and ethanol. (Photo by Eric Kroh)
By Eric Kroh
As farmers in Iowa clear sediment deposited on their land by the Mississippi, Iowa and Cedar rivers, it remains to be seen just how much damage the floods have done.
At a community meeting in Wapello yesterday, […]
Tags: · Barack Obama, corn, ethanol, floods, fuels, Iowa, John McCain, renewable, Rick Perry, standard, Texas
Direction Sugar Land
June 20th, 2008 · No Comments
The Congressional seat in the 22nd District of Texas has been much in the news in recent years. Former Republican Majority House Leader Tom DeLay held it for 11 years, until his indictment in 2006 (for campaign finance violations) triggered a bizarre chain of events, that included a general election with a Republican write-in candidate […]
Tags: · Columbia, election, Houston, immigrants, Immigration, Indian-Americans, Pakistani-Americans, South Asians, Sugar Land, Texas, Tom Delay
Local Solutions for Illegal Immigration Problems?
June 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Last month, a federal court struck down an ordinance in Farmers Branch, Texas, that sought to ban landlords from renting to illegal immigrants. This Dallas suburb of 27,500 people is now waiting to hear from the court on a second ordinance - one that requires tenants to get a residency permit from City Hall […]
Tags: · Columbia, Farmers Branch, immigrants, Immigration, Texas, Tim O'Hare
Will Latino Pendulum Sway to Obama?
March 27th, 2008 · No Comments
While much media ado is being made about the boost among Latino voters that Barack Obama may have won following his endorsement last week from New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, the bigger payoff could come in the form of diplomatic cover that the onetime Clinton ally now provides for other superdelegates that might follow […]
Tags: · California, clinton, Columbia, Hispanic, immigrants, Latin, New Mexico, obama, Pennsylvania, primaries, Richardson, superdelegates, Texas
Gadgetlicious!
March 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Yet another Super Tuesday on our hands (okay, a Junior Super Tuesday). If you’re looking to see what the results from OH, VT, RI and TX could mean for Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, then this interactive fun-ness from Slate — the Delegate Counter:
“According to our delegate calculator, two 10-point wins in Ohio and […]
Tags: · delegate calculator, gadgetry, Ohio, Rhode Island, Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, Slate, Texas, Vermont
