Ethanol
The White House has dropped a plan to provide funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to oil refiners that are denied exemptions from the nation’s biofuel regulations.
Watch live at noon Central - NCGA President Kevin Ross on the work still left to be done on the Renewable Fuels Standard after EPA has denied most “gap year” waivers.
U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed that dozens of oil refiner requests for retroactive waivers from U.S. biofuel laws be denied .
Biofuel groups celebrated a victory in winning most of their demands in a drawn-out fight over refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
While he says soybeans are the most important, Nicholson outlined a handful that he sees as equally important to U.S. agriculture.
12 U.S. Senators sent a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to cease issuing Renewable Identification Number (RIN) waivers also known as “hardship” waivers.
EPA on Friday granted 31 more controversial waivers allowing refiners for forgo blending requirements of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
For the past two years the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been issuing small refinery hardship waivers, which allow the awarded refiners to forgo blending ethanol with their fuels.
When President Trump visited an Iowa ethanol plant in June, farmers attending the event took the opportunity to help President Trump understand how RIN waivers are undermining the RFS.
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