Midwestern governors ask Trump for more steps to boost biofuel sales

October 9, 2019
Midwestern governors are pressing President Donald Trump for more measures to boost biofuel sales, even as EPA prepares to unveil its detailed supplemental proposal to increase biofuel blending targets under the renewable fuel standard (RFS) to appease farmers and biofuel producers critical of the agency’s RFS waivers for refiners. In an Oct. 8 letter to Trump, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on behalf of the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition press the administration to go...


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