Trump's Call For RFS Deal Spurs EPA To Weigh Options To Ease Burdens

摘要

President Donald Trump is calling for critics and supporters of EPA's renewable fuel standard (RFS) to reach a compromise on revising the program, prompting the agency to launch an effort to review administrative authorities for reducing burdens on refiners in lieu of Congress granting refiners' call to repeal or reform the RFS. At a Dec. 7 White House meeting with GOP senators from oil-producing states, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), press reports say that Trump urged the anti-RFS lawmakers to reach a compromise with their pro-RFS colleagues from corn ethanol-producing states over the future of the program. Trump has affirmed his support for ethanol, but also his desire to ease regulatory burdens on industry.