County officials OK ethanol plant
From Times Staff and Wires
Los Angeles County officials have approved construction of an ethanol production plant in Lancaster.
Members of the county’s regional planning commission voted to issue a permit to BlueFire Ethanol of Irvine to build the $30-million facility.
BlueFire President Arnold Klann said the plant would be the first commercial facility in the U.S. to make ethanol out of wood chips, paper and other biowaste.
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