The Renewable Fuels Association says Congress once again has legislation before it that’s designed to gut the Renewable Fuels Standard.
Senators Dianne Feinstein of California and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania are the main sponsors of the legislation.
Geoff Cooper, RFA President and CEO, says Toomey and Feinstein appear to be confused about the RFS.
“There is no ‘corn-ethanol mandate’ under the program and there never has been,” Cooper says.
“Yet, the senators are once again seeking to bolster fossil fuels by trying to kill one of the most successful environmental and climate policies ever enacted by Congress.”
He says the RFA is confident that, as with previous attempts, the legislation will go nowhere.
The legislation is titled the Restore Environmental Sustainability to our Renewable Energy Act.
“It’s particularly ironic today that the senators would dare suggest this legislation would ‘restore environmental sustainability,’ when it, in fact, won’t,” Cooper says.
“It would force more petroleum into our nation’s fuel supply.”
“Whether it’s oil spills in the Gulf, increased carbon emissions, or earthquakes in fracking country, what’s sustainable about today’s oil industry?”