Grant will boost sustainable forestry, help keep cellulosic ethanol low-cost, low carbon KINROSS TOWNSHIP, Mich., Nov.

By Peter CT Elsworth; Bruce A Jamerson BOSTON While the bloom has gone off the corn-based ethanol rose due to the food-or-fuel debate following a run-up in corn prices, a local biotech company is developing a clean and efficient way to produce ethanol from the cellulose in wood chips and grasses rather than from the starch in corn.

By Tom Walsh, Detroit Free Press Jun. 27--As corn prices soar and the food-versus-fuel debate over corn-based ethanol rages on, the State of Michigan and Mascoma Corp.

By Feingold, Jeff Mascoma Corp.'s efforts to develop biofuel from switchgrass and other nongrain plants has drawn the interest - and some funding - from General Motors Corp.

By Ken Thomas, St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 2--WASHINGTON -- General Motors Corp. has taken an ownership stake in a renewable energy company that is working to develop ethanol from wood chips, waste paper sludge and switch grass.