Fall 2000
Congressional News

On September 7, the Senate Environment and Public Works...
The amendment introduced at the start of the mark-up by Chairman Smith...
Senator Rod Grams of Minnesota has introduced legislation that would amend...
Farm aid legislation signed into law earlier this summer includes...
News From Federal Agencies

September 11 was the deadline for comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection...
The Commodity Credit Corporation recently published a notice of proposed rulemaking...
In a status report provided to Congress on July 28, the Federal Trade Commission...
States' Ethanol
News
The municipal bus system in Lincoln, Nebraska, was selected as one of the first...
Nebraska corn and ethanol producers, with the help of Nebraska Governor...
New Plants
and Technology
The Agricultural Research Service has discovered a process that converts ethanol...
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Cargill Dow, a joint venture between Cargill Inc...
Vehicle Competitions
Surging to the finish line,
the team from the University of Maryland in their
E85-powered...
Editorials, Quotes & News
"Superman is faster than a speeding bullet. Congress is more like a turtle slogging...
"Many in the environmental community embrace the idea of a performance...
"Considering the current plight of corn producers, and given the recent high...
"The most recent studies by the U.S. Department of Energy...
"As we attempt to deal with the water contamination problems resulting from leaking...
Ethanol
Studies
If the state of California moves to non-oxygenated fuels, the air quality benefits...
According to a study by the Freedonia Group, the demand for ethanol's use as a fuel...
International News
Archer Daniels Midland has announced hat it will send
20 million...
The Thai
government and Ford Motor Company will jointly work to use farm...
Speakers at a world sugar
conference told growers a surge in oil prices was...
National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition and
E-85
As part of a new Clean Air Choice fuel awareness program, the American Lung Association...
14+ New E85 Pumps to Open in Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Baltimore and S.E. Wisconsin

Four different federal Clean City grants totaling $400,000 will finance expansion...
Last year, Ford Motor Company spent $1 million developing retail alternative fuel stations...
Ethanol Coalition
News
The policy commitee members of the Coalition, Minnesota Representative...
The final meeting of Coalition members for 2000 will
be...