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With Utah gas prices spiking, Legislative leaders eye tax incentives again

  • Alixel Cabrera

While Utah leaders have worked on infrastructure tax credits and incentives for gas production, they keep raising their eyebrows at the pump, frustrated with the fact that the average price of gas has continued to rise above the national average this year.  Especially Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, a Republican from Hooper, who was behind […]

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Thune says year-round higher ethanol blend will require compromising with small oil refiners

  • Joshua Haiar

SIOUX FALLS — The year-round sale of higher ethanol-blended gasoline, called E15, does not have enough votes in the U.S. Senate unless it comes with compromises for small oil refineries, said Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota. Ethanol is a gasoline additive made primarily from corn, and a lower E10 blend is already available year-round. […]

Louisiana

Two years after ‘red mud’ escaped alumina refinery, LDEQ hasn’t penalized company

  • Wesley Muller

More than two years after environmental regulators first documented industrial ‘red mud’ waste from the Atalco Gramercy alumina refinery escaping into public waterways, the state has yet to fine or penalize the company.  Instead, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality remains engaged in confidential settlement negotiations with the company while a federal judge has kept […]