Icahn Says He May Boost Trump With Attack on EPA Biofuels Rules

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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said he may get in-volved in the U.S. presidential election, funding an ad campaign to highlight Donald Trump's vow to slash government red tape. It's not an abstract issue for Icahn, who recently blamed what he calls ill-conceived Environmental Protection Agency regulations for cutting profits at a pair of oil refineries he owns (See related story). The ad campaign "would bring out the point that Trump is the only candidate that will rein in the ridiculous regulations and bring back more confidence, and therefore more capital spending," Icahn said Aug. 15 in a phone interview from his summer home in East Hampton, N.Y. "You have to unleash the power of corporations to spend money."