National Farmers Union President Rob Larew testified last week in front of the Senate Agriculture Committee as the panel looked at proposed climate change legislation. NFU’s Biofuels Advisor Anne Steckel says the RFS is critical in improving the climate and that Larew told the committee the EPA has been the primary barrier to reducing greenhouse gases.

She says ethanol has an important role to play in any measure that calls for steps in improving the environment and benefitting the climate.

Steckel says the EPA hasn’t done much to help advance higher biofuels or push forward the ethanol industry but has approved actions that hinder its development.

Steckel says NFU is backing the Growing Climate Solutions Act being carried by Senate Ag Committee ranking member Debbie Stabenow.