EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt may have to backtrack on promises he made to Midwest ethanol supporters if the administration wants to save refinery jobs on the East Coast.

Dozens of petitions from small refiners are landing in Pruitt’s inbox asking him to waive the renewable fuel mandate in the wake of the bankruptcy filing by the Philadelphia Energy Resources refinery.

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