OZONE PLAN WINS ACTIVISTS' BACKING FOR WISCONSIN ETHANOL MANDATE

Several environmental groups have reversed their opposition to a bill in Wisconsin to mandate ethanol in gasoline, after lawmakers included a backstop provision intended to halt the mandate if it is found to worsen summer ozone problems. The compromise bill could become a model for a host of other states now considering an ethanol requirement, which has been established in very few states to date. But business groups and some state officials argue these bills could make it more difficult...