A solution to the odor problem at a Saint Paul ethanol plant may still be months away... but city officials say new steps on the legal and environmental fronts represent progress toward taming the smell coming from Gopher State Ethanol. Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen reports. Saint Paul Mayor Norm Coleman and city council member Chris Coleman, whose district includes the ethanol plant, announced two new developments in the ongoing saga of the stink. The city and Gopher State Ethanol have entered into an agreement with a non-profit environmental group that will conduct a thorough study of the odor, its causes, and possible long and short-term solutions. In addition, the city council asked the city attorney for a report on what legal leverage Saint Paul may have in its effort to reduce the odor. Chris Coleman, unrelated to the mayor, says the environmental group is the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy or M-C-E-A, which has worked on industrial odor issues at Koch Refinery and Andersen Windows. He says the legal opinion from the city attorney is due on November twenty-second...