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Groton Daily Independent
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 102 ~ 15 of 63
News from the
SD Lottery
By The Associated Press
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) _ These South Dakota lotteries were drawn Wednesday:
Dakota Cash
09-22-26-31-35
(nine, twenty-two, twenty-six, thirty-one, thirty- ve) Estimated jackpot: $20,000
Hot Lotto
01-16-29-38-43, Hot Ball: 15
(one, sixteen, twenty-nine, thirty-eight, forty-three; Hot Ball: fteen) Estimated jackpot: $11.76 million
Mega Millions
Estimated jackpot: $20 million
Powerball
30-49-54-66-69, Powerball: 8, Power Play: 2
(thirty, forty-nine, fty-four, sixty-six, sixty-nine; Powerball: eight; Power Play: two) Estimated jackpot: $156 million
Iowa governor pushes Trump to preserve ethanol quotas By BARBARA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s Republican governor on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump and his administration to preserve a federal program mandating that biofuels such as corn-based ethanol be blended into gasoline and diesel following a proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency to lower production targets for renewable fuels.
Gov. Kim Reynolds highlighted the issue amid a proposal by the EPA to lower production targets for biofuels in the so-called Renewable Fuel Standard program, known as RFS. She elevated her concerns by speaking at a press conference alongside RFS supporters such as farmers.
Reynolds, a staunch supporter of Trump, said she spoke with the president ahead of her remarks at an agriculture cooperative in Pella, about an hour southeast of Des Moines. She said that she also had a phone conversation with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
“Both of them personally af rmed to me their continued commitment to the renewable fuel standard,” she told reporters.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders con rmed Trump’s call during a brie ng in Wash- ington but said “no de nitive decision was made on RFS.”
Reynolds’ press secretary, Brenna Smith, said a decision can’t be made until a public comment period on the plan ends Thursday.
The EPA oversees the decade-old RFS program, which sets how much corn-based ethanol and other renewable fuels must be blended into gasoline and diesel. The program is dear to politicians in agricultural states such as Iowa, the nation’s largest producer of corn.
In addition to supporting farmers, the program is aimed at reducing dependence on foreign oil. Pruitt recently proposed targets for 2017 and 2018 set slightly below current levels, following a push by oil com-