Statewide Iowa — Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds says she plans to focus her lobbying efforts on the Environmental Protection Agency to change their policy to fulfill the promise made by the president on the amount of ethanol and biodiesel that should be used to make up for waivers given small refineries.
Fellow Republican, Senator Joni Ernst, says the president has told the EPA to make sure the promise is kept.
She says she will put the focus on EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
Ernst says she’ll lobby the president on the issue if the EPA won’t listen.
Those in the biofuels industry say up to 400 jobs at Iowa plants are at stake if the EPA doesn’t follow through. Four plants in Iowa have already temporarily shut down.
Photo above, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, courtesy of Radio Iowa
