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Advanced Biofuels president says waiver determination is misleading

The president of the Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA) does not agree with Scott Pruitt’s contention that hardship waivers are granted objectively.

“I have a different view,” said Michael McAdams, president of the ABFA.  That organization is suing the EPA over the waivers.  The increase in the number of waivers granted since Pruitt began at the EPA indicates that something has changed, according to McAdams.

“What we think he had specifically instructed the staff at EPA to do is lower the thresholds so that you could have more people found to have a disproportionate economic hardship,” said McAdams.

The law allows for waivers to be granted in cases of actual financial distress, but McAdams maintains that the EPA granting process lacks transparency.

“We don’t know who got [waivers], when they got them, and how the criteria was applied to grant them,” he said.

The extra waivers mean less blending incentive, according to McAdams, resulting in more pollution.

AUDIO: Michael McAdams (7 min. MP3)