GOP Senate Staffers Predict Dim Prospects For Major RFS Reform In 2017

December 6, 2016
Staffers representing Republican senators with widely divergent views on the merits of EPA's renewable fuel standard (RFS) are predicting dim prospects for major RFS reform in Congress next year, given long-running regional divisions among lawmakers on the RFS and other GOP priorities such as undoing EPA's climate rules. President-elect Trump “is very supportive of the RFS,” and is seeking regulatory reform in general as a goal, “not reform of the RFS, not repeal of the RFS,” said one Republican Senate...


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