Sen. Chuck Grassley: EPA Head Wheeler Should Set RFS Requirements or Step Down

Washington, DC — U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said during a teleconference with agriculture journalists on Thursday, Nov. 12, that if EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler isn't going to follow the Renewable Fuel Standard law, he should step down, according to a DTN Progressive Farmer report.

Grassley made the comments in response to recent remarks made by Wheeler indicating the EPA was going to miss the statutory deadline to finalize renewable volume obligations, or RVOs, for 2021.

Wheeler also suggested where the agency may be leaning on several pending small-refinery exemptions petitions for 2019 and 2020.

"While the Trump administration has made strides to get biofuels certainty this year, especially when denying all gap-year waiver requests from small refineries, there are still many questions that need to be answered," Grassley said during the teleconference.

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