After suffering a disheartening setback late last year, backers for more ethanol in gasoline are beginning to stir again.
Congress was poised in December to lift seasonal limits on the sale of E15 — a 15 percent ethanol blend important to the biofuel industry — but a provision to do so vanished from the final version of a stopgap spending bill a few days before Christmas, following unrelated objections on spending from tech mogul Elon Musk and then-President-elect Donald Trump.
Supporters now say they’re ready for a rematch.
“We’ll get it done,” said Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), who’s co-sponsored legislation with Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) to make E15 available in the summer nationwide. “There’s broad, bipartisan support up and down in both the House and Senate for E15.”
