EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the agency will announce by the end of this month a decision on crop-based renewable fuels, a determination that could help farmers pull through an economic skid.
A long-awaited announcement on the amount of biofuel to be mixed into the nation’s fuel supply is part of the environmental agency’s routine implementation of the renewable fuel standard, but it has added weight this year as farmers look to the Trump administration for potential lifelines.
A final rule on the biofuel volumes is “pretty imminent,” Zeldin said Monday during an appearance at the trade publication Agri-Pulse’s annual policy summit in Washington. Corn-based ethanol is the major component of the program, driving up the crop’s production nationwide.
“Before the end of the month,” Zeldin said when asked whether an announcement might come this week. “That narrows it, doesn’t it?”
