Oil and ethanol industries renew hostilities over mandate

Published January 9, 2019 5:00am ET



The oil and ethanol industries showed Tuesday that they are eager to renew hostilities with each other over the Environmental Protection Agency’s renewable fuel program and ethanol mandate, no matter that the government is closed.

American Petroleum Institute CEO Mike Sommers kicked things off while presenting the first State of American Energy report he’s published as head of the oil and natural gas industry’s lead trade group. In the recommendations for the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard, the report called for sunsetting the ethanol mandate.

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