Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Comments on EPA Renewable Fuels Standard Announcement

Date Posted: November 21, 2014

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey issued the following statement on the announcement by EPA that they would delay finalizing the 2014 Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) until 2015.

A copy of EPA’s announcement can be found here.

“It is good news that the EPA has withdrawn the misguided rule they proposed last year and responded to the thousands of public comments opposing their efforts to undermine the RFS."

"Unfortunately, the ongoing uncertainty continues to hurt the entire renewable fuels industry."

“The past year has been an exciting time in the renewable fuels industry with the first commercial scale cellulosic ethanol plants coming online."

"However, we have missed opportunities for even more growth in the industry due to the uncertainty created by EPA’s initial RFS proposal."

"Hopefully the withdrawal of this rule signals a larger change in course within EPA where they will be less adversarial and more responsive to the concerns of rural America.”

For more information, please contact Dustin Vade Hoef at 515-281-3375.

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