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Iowa’s ‘shining star’ goes dark as ballyhooed cellulosic ethanol plant shuts down after two years

By Timothy P. Carney
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Iowa’s ‘shining star’ goes dark as ballyhooed cellulosic ethanol plant shuts down after two years

Gov. Terry Branstad, Sen. Chuck Grassley, and other dignitaries were in smiling attendance in October 2015 for the grand opening of the ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa — the largest plant ever to turn cellulosic material, such as corn husks, into fuel.

“[F]rom conception to commercialization,” Grassley bragged in an op-ed in the Ames Tribune, “Iowa’s newest ethanol biorefinery is a by-product of Iowa ingenuity, innovation and investment.”

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