An Environmental Protection Agency official said this week in light of the Renewable Fuel Standard final rule that advertising on both sides of rule had little or no impact on the final decision. Chris Grundler, head of EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality, said “despite all the overheated rhetoric,” from the oil industry and the ethanol lobby, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy made the decisions based on the law, the science and the public comments that were submitted in writing and at hearings, according to the Hagstrom Report. Grundler said hearings such as the one held in Kansas City, Kansas in June, had far more impact along with “substantive written comments” to the EPA. Under the new rule issued Monday by the EPA, U.S. fuel blenders will be required to mix 18.11 billion gallons of biofuels into fossil fuels in 2016, a 4 percent increase from the June proposal by the EPA. That level is still less than what Congress intended when it passed an expansion of the RFS.
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