Midwestern governors pick new leaders Rounds and Granholm

LANSING, Mich. (AP) Members of the Midwestern Governors Association have elected South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm as their new leaders.

Rounds replaces Wisconsin's Jim Doyle as chairman, while Granholm becomes vice chairwoman.

The governors were in Washington, D.C., over the weekend for the National Governors Association meeting.

Granholm says Midwestern governors already are working on their main focus for the coming year: transportation and infrastructure, which she says ties into climate change and renewable energy.

Granholm says they want to build a biofuel corridor through the region so that, wherever motorists are driving, the can get off the road and easily find E85, biodiesel or other alternative fuels.

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