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Rejection of the RFS waiver highlights need to move forward
Posted on August 07, 2008
Today, the EPA rejected Texas's request to waive the renewable fuel requirements established under the renewable fuel standard. For EPA to have approved the waiver, the agency would have had to agree with Texas' argument that a) the corn ethanol being required under the RFS is causing the economic hardship to the livestock industry and Texas citizens and b) that waiving the RFS requirements would reduce the levels of corn ethanol produced and thereby reduced the hardship. There can be no doubt that corn ethanol is driving up the cost of feed for the livestock industry and driving up the cost o...
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