California seeks ethanol support for fuel standard

Reuters
Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:02pm EDT
By Steve Gorman and Nichola Groom

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California regulators preparing Thursday to adopt landmark rules curbing carbon emissions from transport fuels made an eleventh-hour bid to woo critics who call the measures unfair to corn-based ethanol.

Transport alone accounts for 40 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in California, which ranks as the leading automobile market in the United States.

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