Changing Locomotion in Midstream: California's Ethanol Mandate (Part 5)

NuStar Tank Farm Selby

Editor’s note: Here’s the final installment of Alexis Madrigal’s series on California’s ethanol mandate.  If you haven’t read the first four parts, you’ll find them linked at the bottom of the page. V: Where the Khakis Meet the Carhartts Dozens of companies up and down Silicon Valley are hard at work rethinking the gasoline that’s [...]

Changing Locomotion in Midstream: California's Ethanol Mandate (Part 3)

Close-up of a freight car on a train

Editor’s note: Part three of Alexis Madrigal’s series on California’s ethanol mandate focuses on the challenges of transporting the fuel. III. How to Move A Billion Gallons of Fuel from Iowa to California Back in the 1980s, with smog choking American cities, the government decided to tinker with the gasoline hydrocarbon formula to create cleaner [...]

Changing Locomotion in Midstream: California's Ethanol Mandate (Part 1)

NuStar ethanol tank farm at Selby, California

Editor’s note: On July 10th, I asked if you’d be interested in “crowdfunding” a feature article on meeting ethanol mandates in California.  You were: within two days, enough money was donated so that Spot.us, a new venture dedicated to crowdfunded reporting, was able to commission Wired.com staff writer Alexis Madrigal to move forward with his [...]