Cedar Rapids Gazette: An Iowan whose company is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to build ethanol plants in Brazil said his facilities don’t contribute to deforestation some have blamed for wildfires in the Amazon rainforest. Bruce Rastetter, chief executive officer of Summit Agricultural Group, based in north-central Iowa, said this week his ethanol plant in Mato Grosso, Brazil’s largest agricultural region, is hundreds of miles south of most of the fires eating away at the rainforest valued for biodiversity and its role in reducing greenhouse gases.