POET cuts water use

POET Bio-refining – Portland announced that it has cut its water use by 24.5 million gallons annually and lowered wastewater discharge due to new technology.
POET has implemented the Total Water Recovery system to filter and reuse water during ethanol production. The new technology has reduced the amount of water needed to produce a gallon of ethanol to 2.58 gallons from 2.94 gallons.
The technology is helping POET cut water consumption by 1 billion gallons over the next five years at its plants across the nation.

Statehouse coverage
Franklin College and the Hoosier State Press Association are teaming up to provide state government and politics coverage for Indiana’s newspapers year-round.
The college’s Statehouse Bureau will provide coverage through the HSPA InfoNet, a service available to all HSPA-member newspapers.
Franklin College has provided statehouse coverage during the January term for the past six years.

Featured
Jack Ronald, editor and publisher of The Commercial Review, was featured this month in The Indiana Publisher, highlighting his independent press mission work, including a recent trip to Afghanistan.
The Indiana Publisher is produced by the Hoosier State Press Association every other week.
Ronald began his overseas work in 1998 by teaching about free press for a semester at the State University of Moldova as a Fulbright Scholar and has since traveled on 14 additional foreign trips doing similar work.
He most recently traveled to Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, his first trip since an attempted project in Krygyzstan in 2009, when he was denied entry to the country and deported. Ronald’s work in Belarus in 2005 has landed him on a blacklist that includes several former Soviet countries where he has worked in the past. Those include Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia.[[In-content Ad]]