by rethinkethanol | Dec 21, 2017 | Featured Writing
Top 10 Reasons I’m Not Celebrating 10 Years of the Ethanol Mandate ORIGINALLY POSTED ON NWF.ORG | DECEMBER 19, 2017 Ten years ago today, President George W. Bush signed into law the ethanol mandate called the Renewable Fuel Standard. Intended to reduce reliance on...
by rethinkethanol | Dec 11, 2017 | Featured Writing
Ethanol Worsens Climate Change, Yet EPA Demands More of It by John M. Decicco | December 8, 2017 Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt took a trip to Iowa last week to meet with ethanol producers. But the day before he headed to the Hawkeye State,...
by rethinkethanol | Dec 11, 2017 | Featured Writing
Harsh Ethanol Ad is Targeted at the President As Donald Trump finishes the first year of his Presidency, turmoil around the Renewable Fuel Standard continues to be problematic. Disaffected members of his base including “union workers, mom and pop gas station owners,...
by rethinkethanol | Nov 16, 2017 | Featured Writing
Ted Cruz confirms his hold on Northey nomination The Texas Senator sent a letter to Iowa’s governor this week by Matthew Patane U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, confirmed this week that he will hold up the nomination of Bill Northey to a federal agriculture post...
by rethinkethanol | Sep 8, 2017 | Featured Writing
President Trump, ethanol is bad for your voters by The Washington Examiner | May 12, 2017 “Ethanol is here to stay,” newly confirmed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced last weekend, “and we’re going to work for new technologies to be more efficient.” Perdue...
by rethinkethanol | Jul 25, 2017 | Featured Writing
There Are Smart Biofuels, and There Are Dumb Ones, Too To meet mandates set out by a 2007 law, American refineries are blending in progressively larger amounts of ethanol distilled from food crops, specifically corn. On paper, that may sound great—we’re boosting...
