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...Prices have also risen for ethanol, another disinfectant common in hand gels....
...Other southern states, including North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky all now host Chinese factories....
...The anticipated policy change was a gradual tightening of a federal mandate for blending biofuels, such as corn ethanol, into motor fuels sold at service stations....
...Ringneck Energy is raising equity to build a $150m, 80m-gallon ethanol plant in Onida, South Dakota....
...Texas residents faced more flooding triggered by tropical storm Harvey as water levels surged in reservoirs in west Houston and a levee south of the city was breached, compounding the human and physical...
...The US sugar industry unites an alliance of growers from the far south and north of the country....
...In spite of the difficult market conditions, some companies have managed to sell shares in the Sao Paulo market, most recently sugar and ethanol company, Biosev, a unit of international commodities trader...
...Andy Milnes, head of oil supply and trading for BP in North and South America, said company analysts are watching not only petroleum fundamentals but Brazilian sugarcane – a source of ethanol fuel....
...Since then, he has built up the company, expanding into ethanol and biofuels in 2000....
...diversified oil and gas company based in Arkansas, will spin off its US downstream business into a new publicly traded company that will operate more than 1,000 gas stations, most of them at Walmarts; two ethanol...
...Shaw is building two nuclear plants – the first to be licensed in the US since 1978 – in South Carolina in co-operation with Westinghouse....
...The impact on US companies would be exacerbated by the end of a tax credit on ethanol of 45 cents a gallon and a tariff of 54 cents a gallon that protected them against cheaper Brazilian ethanol, analysts...
...Signs at Main Street petrol stations advertise that the fuel for sale is “ethanol free” – a blasphemy in corn-growing states such as Iowa....
...Bi-Lo, based in Greenville, South Carolina, has 207 supermarkets and about 17,000 staff in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee....
...Areas of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi near the coast reported scattered wind damage and flooding, but evacuations appeared to be in the hundreds rather than the thousands....
...ethylene and related chemicals in Louisiana, Bloomberg reports....
...Next year USDA expects ethanol groups will use another 100m bushels....
...Shaw, the Louisiana-based civil engineering group, plans to exercise the option to sell its shares to Toshiba, granted when the companies bought Westinghouse from the British government for $5.4bn in 2006...
...Weekend headlines from the FT and other UK media:* From The FT, - Madagascar Oil to bounce back after dispute - Newmont faces probe over Indonesia assets - Pursuit Dynamics reacts to ethanol demand - Chariot...
...It has bought full ownership of its joint venture with Verenium, the US biotechcompany, working on producing “cellulosic” ethanol from non-food crops such as switchgrass....
...After all, the oil from BP’s leaking well, which was largely destined for US markets, is in the Gulf of Mexico, not Louisiana....
...Sugar, in particular, surged by a third in the final quarter of 2005, helped by Brazilian farmers switching more of their crop to ethanol production to cash in on high oil prices....
...Leading oil and gas companies issued lists of production and refining facilities they shut as the storm pounded south-east Louisiana and southern Mississippi....
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