Iowa Soybean welcomes RFS2 rule

The Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) is welcoming the EPA’s final rule on the expanded Renewable Fuels Standard—RFS2. 

ISA president Delbert Christensen of Audubon says it’s good news for Iowa as one of the leading biodiesel and soybean producing states, in that it opens the door to more biodiesel production and usage in the U.S.  He says many of the soybean industry’s concerns were addressed in the final rule. 

Over the past few months, ISA officials have met with representatives of EPA, both in Iowa and Washington, D.C., to explain modern soybean production and the importance of biodiesel to the soybean industry.  ISA director Ray Gaesser  of Corning, who is also vice president of the American Soybean Association, thinks those meetings were instrumental in convincing EPA to make revisions to the rule.