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Crop Prices Shutting Down Ethanol Plants -- And Plans

EcoGeek | Jaymi Heimbuch | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

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Ethanol plants based on food crops are taking a serious hit because of the price hike for grains and the flooding in the Mid-west that has wiped out a...

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The Floods: New Orleans, God, and Nature Can No Longer be Blamed

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

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What happened in New Orleans, and what is happening today in the heartland, is the result of a massive infrastructure failure and the siphoning of tax resources into the war economy.

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Bush Makes 'Lightning-Quick' Tour Of Midwest Flood Destruction

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 07.30.2008 | Home

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — President Bush, surveying the aftermath of devastating floods during a lightning-quick tour of the Midwest on Thursday, ass...

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Feds: 26 Levees Could Overflow If Sandbags Fail

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

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WASHINGTON — The federal government predicts that 27 levees could potentially overflow along the Mississippi River if the weather forecast is on...

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Receding Cedar Rapids Floods Revealing 'Incredible Destruction'

AP | ALLEN G. BREED and JIM SALTER | Posted 06.23.2008 | Home

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IOWA CITY, Iowa — A week's work of frantic sandbagging by students, professors and the National Guard couldn't spare this bucolic college town f...

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