2009-03-28

Ethanol Investors Try to Derail Calif. Emissions Plan. By Margot Roosevelt, LATimes, March 27, 2009. "Ethanol investors met with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week in an effort to derail California's far-reaching proposal to slash carbon emissions from transportation fuels... 'There is an all-out war by corn ethanol interests, and they are using scare tactics to get others on board,' said Patricia Monahan, a vehicles expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists. The rule would be the first in the nation to restrict planet-heating greenhouse gases from fuel. It is an essential component of the state's landmark global warming law, which would slash the state's carbon dioxide emissions by 15% over the next 11 years."

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