A group of Senators is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to maintain a strong Renewable Fuel Standard as they finalize their proposed rules on biofuel requirements for 2014, 2015, and 2016. American Coalition for Ethanol Executive Vice President Brian Jennings says the Senators’ letter to the EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy, is a strong statement in support of the standard.
He says the letter was supported by senators from urban areas as well.
Jennings says the ACE members delivered the letter to senators during an earlier fly-in to the nation’s capital to get this issue moving and to gather support in Washington.
In the letter, senators said the RFS has strengthened agricultural markets and created hundreds of thousands of jobs and has proven to be an effective and efficient driver of alternative fuels and economic development.
