Trump Pick for EPA’s Second-In-Command Derailed By Biofuel Fight

摘要

Senate Republicans are scrapping plans to confirm President Trump’s pick to be the EPA’s No. 2 official, DougBenevento, amid bipartisan objections.1.The decision comes after Sen. Joni Ernst said she will block Benevento until the EPA spells out its plan foraddressing dozens of retroactive refinery requests to be exempted from federal biofuel-blending requirements.“Iowa’s hardworking ethanol and biodiesel producers are sick of being yanked around by Andrew Wheelerand the EPA,” Ernst said in a news release. “Our producers need certainty; until we get that, no EPA nomineeis getting my vote”.