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Politics and Biofuel Policy

Newton’s Third Law of Physics states that for every action, there is a reaction. That law also seemingly applies to renewable energy politics. As previously reported (see Ag Perspectives, 20 October), a biofuels advocate had taken a number of steps to pressure EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt from reducing the proposed biofuel volumes for 2018, which he agreed to via a letter issued 19 October. For that action, however, there are now opposite and equal reactions. For example, a group of governors and members of Congress wrote to Administrator Pruitt and reminded him of President Trump’s electoral performance in a number of key biofuel-producing states as well as his promises to maintain the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS.) Now the...

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