A Friday newswire story indicates the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to recommend to the White House a lowering of the nation’s biofuels blending mandates for 2021 below 2020 levels. No official announcement has been made, but it is to get levels more in line with production hurt by COVID. However, it would be a blow to the biofuels industry.
South Dakota Senator John Thune says EPA has already delayed the release of the Renewable Volume Obligations in the Renewable Fuels Standard for too long and they need to follow the law.
He says the negative stories and recent string of court rulings against biofuels and the RFS are unsettling and it’s time to push back.
Thune says the Administration is forgetting about the role biofuels can play in their climate change agenda.
The same report says EPA is also expected to make a separate recommendation to boost the blending mandates for 2022 above the previous two years.
