Pressure continues on the Trump administration over the issue of small refiner exemptions (SREs) under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
The SREs have taken “a devastating toll on rural families facing one of the toughest years on record,” said Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig in letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. EPA should be more transparent in issuing waivers and “immediately reallocate the gallons that have been lost due to the waivers that have already been granted,” Reynolds and Naig said in their letter.
Meanwhile, biodiesel advocates are seeking to ensure anything the Trump administration does to mitigate damage does not ignore biodiesel. The National Biodiesel Board and American Soybean Association asked President Trump for a meeting on the issue, stressing in a letter that refinery exemptions disproportionately affect biodiesel and renewable diesel producers because of the design of the RFS.
The Iowa Soybean Association said in a separate letter the actions to help ethanol really have not benefitted biodiesel.
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