Despite Legislative Push, GOP Lawmaker Doubts RFS Reform's Prospects

February 26, 2015
Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee's power panel, is raising doubts over the prospects for Congress to approve legislation to reform or repeal EPA's contested renewable fuel standard (RFS), even as lawmakers push ahead with introducing measures to end RFS production mandates that they oppose. During a Feb. 24 energy symposium hosted by the consulting firm Faegre Baker Daniels in Washington, D.C., Whitfield did not mention RFS reform as a House energy panel priority...


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