Back to back hearings on topics related to small refinery exemptions under the Renewable Fuel Standard brought ethanol supporters out to explain how EPA’s abuse of the waivers is hurting farmers and producers and how the new proposed rule is insufficient to fix the problem.
In this edition of The Ethanol Report, we hear from some of those who testified at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing and the public hearing in Michigan on EPA’s proposed supplemental rule to address the waivers, including Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) president and CEO Geoff Cooper, Iowa farmer and ethanol plant president Kelly Nieuwenhuis, Rep. Dave Loebsack (D-IA), Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, and Show Me Ethanol general manager Brian Pasbrig.
Ethanol Report on Hearing Highlights (18:45)