ENERGY

Chevron Will Stop Installing Methanol Pumps: The company will continue to operate its 10 existing methanol fueling facilities in California and will finish four more currently planned. But it will otherwise suspend the program, begun in 1989, which once envisioned 25 fueling stations. Chevron cited low demand for the fuel--only 600 methanol vehicles in the state, instead of the 5,000 once expected by now--and a growing interest in other alternative fuels, particularly natural gas. Chevron and a consortium of other oil firms recently released a study that found that methanol used in existing vehicles can create more air pollution than gasoline.