Ethanol industry mounts big legal challenge against Scott Pruitt

Published May 30, 2018 4:47pm ET



A coalition led by the ethanol industry launched a major legal challenge against Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt Tuesday night.

The lawsuit joins another filed by the Advanced Biofuel Association about a month earlier, lending the full weight of ethanol producers, farm unions, and others in opposing Pruitt’s use of the EPA’s waiver authority to exempt more than two dozen refineries from complying with the Renewable Fuel Standard.

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