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Owner of four ethanol plants, including one in Iowa, pays $1.7 million EPA penalty

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Des Moines Register: The owner of an ethanol plant in the west-central Iowa city of Denison has agreed to pay a nearly $210,000 fine for failing to report chemicals that could be released during an emergency, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The penalty was part of a $1.73 million settlement Andersons Marathon Holdings agreed to pay for 131 reporting violations there and at ethanol plants in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.