A decades-old fight involving Washington’s most powerful trade lobbies has reached new heights — and it’s splitting the president’s key constituencies.
The current battle focuses on renewable fuel standard rulemaking that proposes the highest biofuel volume requirements ever, in time for the program’s 20th anniversary.
It’s prompted corn growers to rejoice and conservatives and fossil fuel interests to — in a rare move — rebuke the Trump administration.
“Unfortunately, recent policy decisions will negatively impact consumers, our members, and the President’s energy dominance agenda, which we know you support,” the group American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers wrote in a recent letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).
