EPA/HOUSE OF REPS: “A group of 22 members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter on Thursday [10-19-17] not to lower some requirements for mixing biofuels into the country’s fuel supply, but also not to let ethanol exports qualify for renewable fuel credits, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Reuters.
The members of Congress are part of a bipartisan voting bloc dedicated to supporting the biofuels industry called the House Biofuels Caucus. They represent districts in states such as Iowa and Illinois where farmers grow corn for ethanol and other biofuels. They urged the agency to increase biomass-based biodiesel requirements and not to decrease the amount of advanced biofuels required to be added to the fuel supply…
Midwestern politicians and industry representatives have been pressuring the EPA not to reduce renewable fuel standards.
Fuel companies, meanwhile, want to change certain rules for complying with the standards to make it easier and cheaper for them to meet their renewable fuel requirements. They want ethanol exports to count as tradable credits toward their renewable fuel requirements, a proposal the Biofuels Caucus members condemned.”
-Reuters Staff, “U.S. House members ask EPA not to lower biofuels requirements,” Reuters, Oct. 19, 2017 09:31am