Brazil may import ethanol from the United States in April, Brazil’s oil regulator says. The move comes as a growing number of Brazilian cane farmers choose to produce sugar, which has surged in price over the last year, rather than ethanol, leading to a spike in fuel costs. Earlier this month, Brazil also said that it would import 1.5 million barrels of gasoline in April, while reducing the mixture of ethanol required in gasoline at the pump.

After a winter of heavy rain and snow, Gov. Jerry Brown of California is expected to lift a three-year old drought declaration for the state this week. “While this season’s surplus of rain and strong snowpack has clearly ended the dry spell for now, it is critical that Californians continue to conserve water,” the governor’s office says in a statement. [The Los Angeles Times]

A federal judge rules that plaintiffs’ attorneys in the lawsuit against BP over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico can view e-mails sent by a BP engineer who worked on the doomed well to his wife, also a BP employee. The engineer, Brian Morel, called the blown-out well a “nightmare well” less than a week before an explosion sunk the Deepwater Horizon rig.

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