West of Mpls MN about 50 miles on Hwy 12 | It's a piece from Rueters.
The powerful corn lobby was stomped with two phone calls from big oil.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biofuels-epa/epa-scraps-detai...
The proposed changes came in a June 19th email from Tia Sutton of the EPA to the White House Office of Management and Budget. Pruitt, who resigned amid ethics scandals last week, had just returned from a Midwest tour where he met with farmers angry over his expansion of the exemption program.
A day later, some legal justification was added to the proposed rule, stating “this approach is consistent with the text of our regulations, which accounts for the amount of gasoline and amount of diesel projected to be produced by exempt small refineries in 2019.”
Refiners learned of the changes and made a full-court press to the agency and White House to reverse it.
Refinery-state senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, both Republicans, had calls with Pruitt a day after reports of the changes circulated, according to Pruitt’s public schedule.
On June 22, the EPA struck the changes in a new email to the OMB office, the documents showed.
The final proposed rule was published on June 26.
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Will they or not?
