In the July 19 "Hey, Wait a Minute," Robert Bryce originally stated that ethanol critics David Pimentel and Tad Patzek received no oil industry funding. Pimentel receives no such funding, but Patzek runs the UC Oil Consortium, which does research on oil and is funded by oil companies. His ethanol research is not funded by the oil industry.

In the July 18 "Today's Blogs," David Wallace-Wells incorrectly identified Darren Cahr as a property lawyer. Mr. Cahr is an intellectual property lawyer. He also misidentified Garland Graves as a man. Garland Graves is a woman.

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