RFS Supporters Say Biofuel Is ‘Nuanced’ Issue

Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Agency/Executive Branch, Iowa, Opinions, Policy

June 16, 2016

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by Gene Lucht (Iowa Farmer Today) … What happens in 2022 is that Congress stops setting annual levels of renewable fuel usage, but the actual law does not expire. It would take an act of Congress to make it go away, and so far, that isn’t happening.

While biofuels have occasionally stepped to center stage in this presidential election year, neither of the two likely major-party presidential nominees has come out against the RFS or against biofuels.

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In 2022, the levels Congress set stop going up and the EPA is tasked with setting annual levels for renewable fuel requirements, says Grant Kimberley, executive director of the Iowa Biodiesel Board. That is already how the RFS works for biodiesel.

That process is not perfect, Kimberley concedes, pointing toward disputes regarding those EPA-set levels, but it does keep in place the process and the idea of setting minimum levels of usage.

The Obama administration, which had previously been supportive of biofuels and the RFS, stepped in a couple of years ago and had the EPA alter Congressionally-set RFS levels for ethanol and advanced biofuels, such as cellulosic ethanol. That move is still being challenged in court. READ MORE

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