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Senators join chorus: waive ethanol mandate
Story Date: 8/8/2012
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Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 8/7/12
Editor's Note: Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) signed the letter.
First it was a group of livestock and poultry groups; then a group of House of Representatives members. Now 25 senators have also written to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson urging her to use her existing waiver authority to adjust the corn-ethanol mandate for the Renewable Fuel Standard in the wake of this summer’s drought and skyrocketing corn prices.
“As stressful weather conditions continue to push corn yields lower and prices upward, the economic ramifications for consumers, livestock and poultry producers, food manufacturers and foodservice providers will become more severe,” the senators wrote. “We ask you to adjust the corn grain-ethanol mandate of the RFS to reflect this natural disaster and these new market conditions. Doing so will help to ease supply concerns and provide relief from high corn prices.”
Both Democrats and Republicans signed the letter.
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sen. Kay hagan/sen. burr
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