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Indiana Senator disappointed in EPA proposal

Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly says the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new renewable fuels volumes for 2014 will hurt Indiana’s economy.  “The production and use of biofuels that are grown and developed right here at home helps our economy and increases our national security by lessening our dependence on foreign oil,” he says.  “I am frustrated and disappointed that the EPA has lowered the volume of renewable fuels required in our overall fuel supply.  Cutting the volume of renewable fuels required in our transportation fuel will hurt Indiana workers and hurt Indiana’s economy.”

Under law, the 2014 requirements are set at 14.4 billion gallons of ethanol and 3.75 billion gallons of other advanced biofuels.  The new 2014 requirements announced by EPA today would lower the requirements to 13.01 billion gallons of ethanol and 2.2 billion gallons of other advanced biofuels.