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Grassley discusses biofuels concerns with Trump, will meet with Pruitt

Some renewable fuels advocates are questioning the Trump Administration’s commitment to biofuels in light of recent proposals from the EPA. Those proposals include reducing the RFS blend requirement for biodiesel and having U.S. biofuel export volumes count towards compliance with the RFS.

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he expressed his concerns to President Trump in a phone conversation last Friday.

“I don’t want to say what he President said, but I was very satisfied with the position the President took in our discussion,” Grassley says.

As a result of that conversation, Grassley says he and several of his Senate colleagues will be meeting with EPA administrator Scott Pruitt on October 17th. “I will tell administrator Pruitt that the proposal is counter to what the President pledged,” Grassley says.

Grassley says he has no direct evidence that the oil industry is pressuring the EPA on biofuels, but he doesn’t rule out the possibility.

“Big Oil may be accomplishing something in EPA it couldn’t get through Congress,” he says. “And like a duck, if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.”

AUDIO: Excerpts from Senator Grassley’s conference Wednesday morning conference call with ag reporters

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