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White House Trouble with RFS Math

On 30 August, WPI reported on the President’s plan for a “giant package” of biofuel initiatives that would make farmers “so happy” (click here).  After a White House meeting yesterday with USDA and EPA, that plan may be announced next week with the President unveiling it at an event somewhere in the Corn Belt, likely to be Iowa. The expectation from those familiar with the process is that the 2020 Renewable Volume Obligation (RVO) will be increased by 1 billion gallons through: 1. an additional 500 million gallons of conventional ethanol, which would restore an amount originally waived in the 2016 RVO that the courts ruled EPA had waived incorrectly and remanded back to the Agency for reconsideration; an...

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