Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is renewing a call to maintain the amount of ethanol in the nation’s fuel supply. This comes after a report that the Environmental Protection Agency may scale back proposed cuts to renewable fuel production.
The EPA proposal for renewable fuel standards would reduce by almost 3 billion gallons the amounts of ethanol and other biofuels blended into gasoline in 2014 than the law requires.
The governor’s comments came after Minnesota Sen. Al Franken said a discussion with a White House official led him to believe the EPA will reduce the cuts. He still expects an overall drop in renewable fuel quotas.
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