DuPont Industrial Biosciences to sell cellulosic ethanol plant in blow to biofuel
13.12.2017
MOSCOW (MRC) -- DuPont Industrial Biosciences, a unit of DowDuPont Inc,В said it halted operations at a two-year-old ethanol plant and will sell it, dealing another blow to efforts to create biofuels without using food crops, reported Reuters.The decision to shut the Iowa plant comes as political winds are undercutting efforts to produce ethanol from plant waste and wood shavings. The U.S