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Trump Told Iowa He'd Save Ethanol. His EPA Chief Has Other Ideas

  • Farm-state senator decries administration ‘bait and switch’
  • Politics of ethanol mandate divides oil industry, corn farmers
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As he sought votes during last year’s Iowa caucuses, candidate Donald Trump courted farmers with praise for ethanol and promises that he would boost the home-grown fuel. 

Now those farmers and other biofuel supporters say the people President Trump has put in charge of the issue in Washington are instead boosting their fossil-fuel rivals.