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The oil and biofuel industries worry that EPA could get it wrong in issuing new renewable fuel standards. (AP)
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After a record year in Iowa, big ethanol asks for another handout

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Kurt Kovarik, outgoing legislative director for Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has cashed out for a biodiesel lobbying job, a little more than a month after helping defeat an effort to reduce mandated levels of biodiesel usage. (iStock)
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Revolving door alert: Senior Chuck Grassley staffer helped lobby the administration after accepting industry job

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The great rethink of ethanol
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The great rethink of ethanol

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The Renewable Fuel Standard requires refiners to blend ethanol and other biofuels in the nation's diesel and gasoline supply. If they cannot blend the fuel, they can buy Renewable Identification Number credits, or RINs, to comply with the standard. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Energy and Environment

Ted Cruz’s first attempts to adjust ethanol mandate not well received

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Tina Smith was a key proponent in helping to expand "Minnesota's clean energy economy" during her time as lieutenant governor, Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday. (Brian Peterson/Star Tribune via AP)
Energy and Environment

Al Franken’s replacement adds another big voice for corn ethanol in the Senate

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The final Renewable Fuel Standard targets for 2018 underscore a promise that Trump made to lawmakers who opposed an earlier EPA proposal that sought to cut the biofuel program by 2.5 percent. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News
Energy and Environment

EPA keeps ethanol mandate intact for 2018

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The notice of denial would appear to be the final chapter in a protracted attempt by former Trump adviser Carl Icahn to change the rules so that fuel retailers, instead of refiners, would have to meet the EPA blending requirements. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Energy and Environment

EPA denies oil refiners’ requests to change ethanol mandate

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The U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York is "seeking production of information" about billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn's lobbying on the Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg)
Energy and Environment

Federal prosecutors subpoena former Trump adviser Carl Icahn over efforts to change biofuels policy

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An ethanol plant stands next to a cornfield near Nevada, Iowa. Cellulosic ethanol was supposed to be the next generation, and an improvement. But it hasn't panned out. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Iowa’s ‘shining star’ goes dark as ballyhooed cellulosic ethanol plant shuts down after two years

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Convenience store owners and truck stop operators, who interact directly with the end users of fuel, say they have plenty at stake if the Renewable Fuel Standard were weakened.
Energy and Environment

Trump administration wants to cut biofuels, raising big worries in transportation industry

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