New biofuels facility receives $1.7 million investment

Clinton, Mississippi, has received $1.7 million (€1.3 million) to build a water and waste water infrastructure to aid the new Chemtex cellulosic biofuels plant.

This project will use energy grasses to produce up to 20 million gallons per year of ethanol and bio-based chemicals in a bid to lower levels of greenhouse emissions.

Its feedstock, Arundo Donax, which was approved in June 2013, will be used as the plant's biofuel.