Senators press President Trump not to change Renewable Fuel Standard point of obligation

More than 20 senators pressed President Donald Trump to reject requests from oil refiners to overhaul the Renewable Fuel Standard programme.

 

Oil refiners have requested that the US government change the programme to push the burden of meeting annual biofuels use requirements downstream, a move that has been met with criticism and backlash from ethanol producers, fuel retailers and others.

The change would be "unwarranted and indefensible," said the bipartisan group of senators that included Charles Grassley from Iowa and Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota in a letter to Trump.