1999 Alabama, Alaska, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, South Dakota, Wisconsin. To keep everyone posted on state workshops and follow-on activities an Ethanol Workshop Series Newsletter, the EWS News, is published four times a year. Each issues covers the states that have activity to report. Each issue of the EWS News has the general information on the front page of the issue and has the information about states that were covered in that issue on the left hand column. All states that have participated in the US DOE Ethanol Workshop Series are listed on the column on the left of this page.
State information is updated as often as received.
The production and use of biofuels for transportation can provide several advantages and benefits to our society. Biofuels are domestically produced, thus providing energy security and reducing trade deficits and their associated economic drain. And from an economic standpoint, the local production and use of biofuels creates jobs, generates tax revenues, creates cash flow back into rural communities, and reduces the need for various government assistance programs. The development of markets for ethanol is also a major part of the overall program. The ultimate goal of the workshops and associated follow-up activities is to pave the way at a state level for producing ethanol from cellulosic feedstocks.