Ethanol investors try to derail California's carbon-emissions proposal

LA Times
By Margot Roosevelt 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.

The meeting, the latest volley in a national campaign against the regulation, was attended by Silicon Valley mogul Vinod Khosla and former Secretary of State Bill Jones, chairman of the board of Sacramento-based Pacific Ethanol Inc. One participant, New Fuels Alliance lobbyist Brooke Coleman, said the proposal is based on "completely speculative" scientific models and would cripple the nation's biofuels industry.

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