The President of the American Coalition for Ethanol says the EPA’s approval of three more ethanol blending waivers the day before Administrator Andrew Wheeler left office is a painful reminder of EPA’s refinery-win-at-all-cost mentality.
Brian Jennings tells Brownfield the last three Small Refinery Exemptions might not seem like much, but the damage to renewable fuels over the last four years has been severe. “Over the four-year term for President Trump, his EPA has approved nearly ninety refinery exemptions, eighty-eight to be exact, and that’s eroded about four and a half billion gallons from what the statute, from what the law called for.”
Jennings says the American Coalition for Ethanol has not sought court action to block the new waivers, but they have asked for an internal EPA investigation.
