Pushkin.

In 2011, Bruce Rastetter headed down to Brazil.

He was not just another Midwest tourist headed to the Amazon.

Bruce had pioneered factory farming in Iowa and then done the same for biofuels and this thing called carbon capture.

He's a big Republican donor too.

So he went to Brazil looking for land.

So we met with a lot of larger farmers, went from Bahia to Tokatines to Madagroso.

And he flew down with a team of executives.

They said they were going to help the country get in on a gold rush.

Farming and its derivatives are going to be really the next great commodity that the globe's going to trade.

It's a huge opportunity, but we won't qualify unless we lower our carbon intensity scores.

Over the last couple of decades, climate regulators have worked hard to incentivize green energy solutions.

And Bruce Rasteader knows better than anyone how to take

advantage of something like that. He's gotten huge government kickbacks by pivoting from growing

corn to making corn ethanol. And now he's helping the ethanol industry get paid for capturing

their carbon emissions. So this Republican kingmaker is planning on this get-rich scheme of us paying him to capture CO2 at

ethanol plants and then shipping it across private land and public land and then disposing of it

somewhere many states away. For the last 10 years, Bruce and his Brazilian company FS Bioenergy

have been pushing corn ethanol and carbon capture in Brazil, even helping to draft Brazilian regulations around it.

FS is promoting regulation, pioneering, prospecting, and even drawing on the experience of its partners in the United States.

Now, corn ethanol production and carbon capture are so big in Brazil, they're the top competitor to the U.S.

But Troubleback Home is threatening to topple Bruce's whole carbon empire.

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