Scandals Haven't Beaten Pruitt. A Policy Fight Over Biofuel Might
- EPA chief in tug-of-war pitting farmers against oil refiners
- Lawmakers threatened Pruitt’s job over biofuel policy dispute
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A deluge of political scandals hasn’t sunk EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. But a wonky debate over the nation’s biofuel policy just might.
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley bluntly warned last month he would call for Pruitt’s resignation if the Environmental Protection Agency continued exempting small oil refineries from a mandate to use renewable fuels such as ethanol made from corn, a staple crop in his home state of Iowa.