AGRICULTURE/ENERGY [ALTERNATIVE]/EPA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration is moving to allow year-round sales of gasoline with higher blends of ethanol, a boon for Iowa and other farm states that have pushed for greater sales of the corn-based fuel. President Donald Trump announced he is lifting a federal ban on summer sales of high-ethanol blends during a trip to Iowa on Tuesday [10-9-18]…The long-expected announcement is something of a reward to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, who as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman led a contentious but successful fight to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The veteran Republican lawmaker is the Senate’s leading ethanol proponent and sharply criticized the Trump administration’s proposed rollback in ethanol volumes earlier this year. Grassley called the proposal ‘a very good victory for agriculture,’ ethanol workers and the environment. ‘Everything about this is good, good, good,’ Grassley said Tuesday after he and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, met with Trump at the White House.”
–The Associated Press, “In Boon for Farmers, Trump Lifts Restrictions on Ethanol,” The New York Times online, October 9, 2018