A Pennsylvania lawmaker with a history of opposing the federal renewable fuel standard is sponsoring legislation to kill EPA’s latest biofuel blending requirements.
Rep. Scott Perry, a Republican from the Harrisburg area, introduced a resolution to block the environmental agency’s fuel blending requirements for 2026 and 2027, which EPA finalized weeks ago.
Perry’s resolution — co-sponsored by hard-right Texas Rep. Chip Roy — is based on the Congressional Review Act, the law that allows Congress and the president to revoke new regulations by simple majority through a joint resolution of disapproval. Lawmakers usually introduce CRA resolution against the opposing party’s initiatives.
While passage is unlikely — and President Donald Trump’s disapproval of his own administration’s pro-farmer regulation more remote still — the resolution reflects ongoing division in Congress about how far the nation should go in making transportation fuel a mix of gasoline and biofuels like corn-based ethanol.
