Ethanol Dispute May Hurt Pruitt More Than His Ethics Scandals

Bloomberg

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is caught in the middle of a dispute between oil refiners and the ethanol industry. The EPA granted a request by small fuel refineries to not have to follow a standard that requires using renewable fuels such as ethanol. When this angered ethanol advocates, the agency responded by saying that larger refiners needed to make up the difference by using more ethanol, which led to a new round of complaints.

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