Ted Cruz Says Imperiled Biofuel Overhaul Plan Isn’t Dead

  • Texas senator has dinner with EPA chief Pruitt in Washington
  • Grassley had praised Trump for rejecting ’bad ethanol deal’

Corn is unloaded from trucks into the grain elevator during ethanol production. 

Photographer: Patrick Fallon
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A day after a tentative agreement to overhaul U.S. biofuel policy appeared to collapse amid farm-state concerns, EPA chief Scott Pruitt met to discuss the issue with the lead senator pushing for the changes: Ted Cruz.

Pruitt had dinner with Cruz, a Texas Republican, at a Washington steakhouse blocks from the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday night.