Organizers hope to pressure caucus hopefuls on ethanol

There are a few rarely challenged observations about Iowa politics. Lyon County is red, Johnson County is blue and corn is king from the Missouri River to the Mississippi.

One national organization, however, hopes to challenge that third assumption in the lead-up to the 2020 caucuses.

Mighty Earth in Washington, D.C., is employing organizers in Iowa City, Des Moines and Davenport to raise skepticism about food-based biofuels such as ethanol.

The group is educating Iowans about environmental issues, with the hope they will pressure visiting presidential hopefuls to be more critical of the status quo in energy policy.

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