National Ag News

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told farm state senators in a letter sent last night that his agency is abandoning proposed changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Pruitt said the agency will keep renewable fuel volume mandates for next year at levels equal or greater to those the agency proposed in July, reversing a proposal to cut the levels for biodiesel and cellulosic ethanol.

Pruitt also promised that the EPA will not take action on a rumored proposal to allow ethanol exports to count towards RFS compliance and will not move the point of obligation downstream to fuel wholesalers.

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