Topeka ? Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed a bill today designed to encourage the use of ethanol in Kansas.

Sebelius today signed Senate Bill 56, which deletes the requirement that every retail pump for motor-vehicle fuels be labeled to show the content and percent of any ethyl alcohol or other alcohol additive, such as ethanol.

Such labels discourage the uses of gasoline containing ethanol, according to the bill’s supporters.

“Ethanol burns cleaner and it is made right here in Kansas, so it helps both our environment and our economy. This bill is good for Kansas and it is good for the United States, because the increased use of ethanol helps us reduce our dependence on foreign oil,” Sebelius said in signing the bill.