The brewing battle over a federal biofuel-blending mandate will hit Capitol Hill at a Wednesday hearing. The House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on Energy Policy,
Health Care and Entitlements will take a look at the renewable fuel
standard, which is the subject of a growing political and lobbying effort. “It is one thing to say we want to help and protect the environment in
our nation. It’s another thing to create an impossible standard,” Rep.
James Lankford (R-Okla.), who chairs the subpanel, told The Hill on
Tuesday. Several bipartisan
bills aimed at changing the rule have been filed in both the House and
the Senate, though the GOP-controlled House looks more eager to tackle
the issue. The rule requires refiners to blend 36 billion gallons of biofuel into conventional fuel by 2022. Among the rule’s detractors are the oil-and-gas industry,
livestock and poultry groups and some environmental organizations that
oppose corn ethanol. Opponents argue the rule’s blending targets are accelerating too
quickly. They say refiners must then either churn out gasoline with
higher ethanol concentrations or purchase renewable fuel credits...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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