New Biofuels Group Scrambles To Defend RFS As Corn Yields Boost Critics

摘要

The biofuels industry is launching a new trade group aimed solely at defending EPA's renewable fuel standard (RFS) from critics who are citing a dramatic fall in corn yields in a push to dismantle the program, with the group countering that the agency is opening the RFS to new fuel pathways that will reduce demand for corn as a fuel source. Oil industry groups and others have long claimed that the RFS' cellulosic ethanol goals are impossible to meet, and are seeking either waivers from the mandates or a complete overhaul of the program.