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EPA’s ruling on RFS-2 could come Wednesday
An announcement on the much-anticipated EPA final rule on RFS-2—the Renewable Fuels Standard—could come as early as Wednesday.
That word from House Agriculture Committee chairman Collin Peterson during an exclusive Capitol Hill interview with Brownfield on Tuesday.
“I think we’re going to get a rule that we can live with,” Peterson says. “It’s not going to be something that we’re necessarily happy with—but it could have been a lot worse.”
That decision is expected to include EPA’s final stance on the controversial international indirect land use theory and the so-called “lifecycle analysis” of ethanol production. Samantha Slater of the Renewable Fuels Association says the rule will play a large role in determining EPA and Congressional renewable fuels policy going forward.
“As you see Congress talking about possibly exploring a low-carbon fuels standard, as we’ve seen states do, the methodologies that EPA develops on lifecycle analysis today will certainly be a part of that discussion going forward,” Slater says.
Slater says a positive ruling from EPA is critical to future investment in and the development of cellulosic ethanol and other next-generation biofuels.
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