Increased consumption targeted WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture have released new rules that would increase the nation’s ethanol consumption. The plan calls for increasing the current biofuel mandate of 15 billion gallons a year that must be blended into the country’s fuel supplies. And the plan would

Governor vetoes Carnegie land sale SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have denied the off-highway vehicle community a long-overdue opportunity for additional motorized recreation at the Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area. Assembly Bill 1086, introduced in the last days of the legislative session, was a “gut and amend” bill