Chemical and Engineering News: IN FEBRUARY 2007, the Department of Energy selected six cellulosic ethanol projects to receive up to $385 million in grants. Authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the funding was part of an effort by the Bush Administration to end the U.S.’s “addiction to oil” and enhance the nation’s energy security. The money was intended to further two of President George W. Bush’s goals: to make ethanol out of nonfood biomass, including billions of pounds of agricultural waste, at a cost …