WASHINGTON, D.C.—Growth Energy, the nation’s largest biofuel trade association, applauded a bipartisan group of lawmakers for a Senate letter they sent this week urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set strong, multi-year renewable volume obligations (RVOs) and to reallocate any gallons lost through the granting of small refinery exemptions (SREs).
Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) led the Senate RVO letter, which eventually garnered another 14 signatures from biofuels supporters from across the Midwest.
“When the Senate’s biofuel champions talk, EPA should take care to listen,” said Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor. “This letter hits all the right notes when it comes to offering guidelines that EPA should follow in order to set the strongest possible RVOs that deliver the greatest amount of economic benefits to the rural economy. We commend Senators Grassley and Klobuchar for their leadership in drafting this letter, and we urge EPA to take its advice by setting higher biofuel blending volumes, issuing RVOs for more than just one year, and making sure that any gallons lost to SREs are added back into the total number of required biofuel gallons.”
Read the full Senate RVO letter here. Read Sen. Grassley’s release here.