32 bipartisan senators urge RFS action to boost biodiesel industry

摘要

A bipartisan group of 32 senators today pressed U.S. EPA to take action on long-delayed renewable fuel mandates to boost biodiesel producers. In a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the senators said the agency's failure to finalize mandates for 2014 and beyond through the renewable fuel standard has caused the biodiesel industry to slow production and lay off workers. The senators urged EPA to quickly issue a rule setting a retroactive RFS requirement for 2014 at last year's production levels and to increase the RFS mandate for biodiesel in 2015 and 2016.