EPA pushed to scrap corn ethanol in fuel regs

Published June 9, 2016 7:38pm ET



A free-market group is advising the Environmental Protection Agency on a way to change its renewable fuels program by backing away from corn ethanol and going after more advanced fuels.

The American Council for Capital Formation issued a report Thursday outlining the plan, which could offer a first glimpse into how the EPA’s renewable fuel standard, or RFS, could be phased out or reformed into something that is far less of a “farm support” system for corn.

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