Obama’s Punt on Renewable Fuel Sets Up Fights in Court, Congress
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The Obama administration’s decision to put off this year’s quotas for using renewable fuels sets up fights in Congress and the courts over a program that has been bitterly contested for nearly a decade.
The delay, announced yesterday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, caps months of fighting between refiners and ethanol producers over a proposal by the agency to lower the quotas for using ethanol, biodiesel and cellulosic fuels.