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A Sioux County, Iowa, dairy farmer says she received little direction from state regulators about preparing for a Tuesday hearing that might determine whether she will be forced to allow a carbon dioxide pipeline to be built across her 80 acres.

Summit Carbon Solutions must reveal the financial aspects of its agreements with ethanol plants to the attorneys for two groups that seek to verify the economic claims of Summit’s proposed carbon dioxide pipeline, the Iowa Utilities Board has decided.

An administrative law judge has decided that Summit Carbon Solutions should give documents of its “dispersion modeling” to groups that seek them as evidence for the company’s upcoming pipeline permit hearing.

More than half of Iowa has sufficient topsoil moisture for growing crops — an improvement that resulted from back-to-back wet weeks, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report on Monday.

Iowa regulators should postpone a hearing for a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline because North Dakota rejected the route, opponents say.

An administrative judge says that Summit Carbon Solutions should reveal to stakeholders its deals with ethanol plants.

Attorneys general in Iowa and Nebraska have filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force it to end the federal waiver for a common ethanol blend to be sold during the summer in those states.

About 8.5 inches of rain fell in western Iowa’s Little Sioux last week — a record amount in seven days for the town that has been suffering from severe drought. In much of northeast Iowa, there was little or none.

North Dakota regulators rejected Summit Carbon Solutions' permit request for a carbon dioxide pipeline, saying it failed to minimize negative impacts.

Dryness in Iowa intensified for the second straight week, marked by worsening drought in a large area of the eastern part of the state.