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NCGA Ups Pressure on EPA to Follow President's Lead on Ethanol with New Ad Promoting "No New Waivers"

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:47:31 CDT

NCGA Ups Pressure on EPA to Follow President's Lead on Ethanol with New Ad Promoting The National Corn Growers Association today will begin airing an advertisement calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow President Trump's commitment to farmers and stop giving Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) waivers to big oil companies. These waivers negatively impact farmers by undercutting the RFS and reducing corn demand.


Watch the Ad, here.


The ad features NCGA First Vice President and Iowa farmer Kevin Ross who recently appeared at an ethanol plant with President Trump in recognition of the Administration's support of year-round E15. During the event, Ross thanked the President for delivering on this promise but cautioned, "The EPA's oil refinery waivers threaten to undo your good works."


Since early 2018, EPA has granted 53 RFS small refinery exemptions (SREs), or waivers, totaling 2.61 billion ethanol-equivalent gallons of renewable fuel. The 2017 RFS waivers effectively reduced the 15 billion-gallon implied ethanol volume to 13.18 billion gallons, rolling back the RFS to pre-2013 blending requirements. As a result of these waivers, ethanol consumption declined for the first time in 20 years and USDA's most recent WASDE projects a 155 million bushel decline in corn going to ethanol production in the 2018/2019 marketing year.


There are currently 39 refinery exemption petitions pending for the 2018 compliance year. NCGA has highlighted 39 reasons why the EPA should not grant additional waivers.


In addition to its call on the EPA, NCGA is supporting legislation in the House, H.R. 3006, and Senate, S. 1840, that would seek to stop waiver abuse and address the harm these waivers are causing to the RFS and corn demand.


The advertisement began airing this morning and will air into next week on Fox News affiliates.


Source - National Corn Growers Association




   

 

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