Corn group leaders from 23 states have written President Donald Trump asking him to make the Environmental Protection Agency uphold the Renewable Fuel Standard. They’re telling the President that the 81 new small refiner waivers granted big oil companies are negatively impacting the 300,000 corn farmers they represent. South Dakota Corn Grower’s Association President Doug Noem says the main thing they want is to have those lost ethanol gallons reallocated.
He says the waivers have caused a lot of unrest in the country.
Noem says in addition, ethanol plants in seven states have either closed or idled and those closures have cost 2700 jobs and impacted demand for more than 300 million bushels of corn.
Noem says their letter points out to effectively stop the harm caused by the RFS waivers, EPA needs to account for projected waivers beginning with the pending 2020 RFS volume rule.
