EPA to Reward Iowa by Holding the Biofuel Mandate Steady
- EPA sets conventional biofuel target at 15 billion gallons
- Administration tries balancing demands of oil, corn groups
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The Trump administration, rebuffing oil industry demands for broad changes to the U.S. biofuel mandate, largely maintained the status quo in setting final quotas for how much refiners must blend into gasoline and diesel.
But the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision drew only tepid applause from Iowa politicians, Midwest corn farmers and producers of soy-based biodiesel, who say the targets lowball the industry’s potential production and threaten to discourage new investment.