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EPA Says It Won't Cut Biofuel Quotas After Corn States Push Back

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday October 25 2017, @05:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the add-your-own-butter-and-salt dept.

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In an October 19 letter to corn-belt lawmakers, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt said that he won't seek any rollback to biofuel blending rules, according to Reuters.

The agency had been considering some changes to rules set by the Obama administration that ratchet up the amount of renewable biofuel that refineries must blend into the gas and diesel they sell. According to Bloomberg, the EPA had specifically been considering "a possible reduction in biodiesel requirements" as well as "a proposal to allow exported renewable fuel to count toward domestic quotas." In early October, the EPA asked for public comment on cutting biodiesel quotas.

The Bloomberg story cited unnamed sources who said President Trump personally directed Pruitt to back off any proposals that would relax biofuel quotas after pressure from lawmakers from corn-producing states like Iowa, Nebraska, and Illinois. Trump, who courted both fossil fuel interests and corn-belt states in his campaign, has had pressure from each side on this debate. Uncertainty surrounding the future of biofuel use during Trump's administration has caused volatility in biofuels markets for months, Reuters notes.

(The Bloomberg story also cites one unnamed "top EPA official" who said that Trump's directive to Pruitt didn't matter because Pruitt wasn't going to alter renewable fuel standards anyway.)

Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/epa-says-it-wont-cut-biofuel-quotas-after-corn-states-push-back/

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  • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Thursday October 26 2017, @05:28PM (1 child)

    by t-3 (4907) on Thursday October 26 2017, @05:28PM (#587894)

    CRP isn't that good for wildlife. It's not like they just let the land go fallow and let nature take it back. No, each state has a department that decides what has to grow there, and they change every couple years, so all that habitat will be plowed yo, new stuff planted, every few years. It's better than corn for miles and miles, but it still sucks.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday October 26 2017, @09:32PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday October 26 2017, @09:32PM (#588004)

    True enough, pheasant and some other birds do pretty well on CRP, but, yeah, those "good for the wildlife" claims should really be stated like you did "better than corn."

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