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ASA Calls On EPA To Reject Retroactive SRE Waiver Requests

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The American Soybean Association has written to the EPA administrator asking him to reject the 52 small refiner waiver requests that oil companies want applied retroactively. ASA President and Minnesota grower Bill Gordon says they told the agency they need to follow the 10th Circuit Court Ruling issued in January calling for curbing of those waivers.

He says not only do those waivers hurt agriculture but they also harm the economies of rural communities.

Gordon says biodiesel plants are able to meet the RFS requirements for production but the EPA administrator refuses to follow those requirements.

Gordon says the prolonged uncertainty created by the SRE issue is continuing to stifle investment in American biofuels, and is destabilizing agriculture markets and hurting U.S. soy growers.

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