Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings Inc

Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc., during the first half of 2009, spent about US$900,000 on capital projects, of which US$600,000 was spent on maintenance and environmental projects and US$300,000 was spent on its suspended capacity expansion projects.

Pekin, Ill.-based Aventine Renewable…

Federal and state environmental authorities’ investigations on alleged excess volatile organic compounds (VOC) emissions and other air emissions from many U.S. ethanol plants, including Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings, Inc.’s Illinois and Nebraska facilities, are ongoing.

The matter relating to the Company’s…