Northwest Iowa (Radio Iowa) — Northwest Iowa is corn country, making renewable fuels an important factor in the area economy. Now, leaders of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association are asking supporters to turn out in force and comment on the Environmental Protection Agency’s renewable fuel standard volume obligations for 2018.
Association spokeswoman Cassidy Riley says it’s a simple process for people to submit their opinions and the deadline is next month.
The effort needs as many backers as possible as Riley suspects the deep-pocketed petroleum industry will be calling for reductions.
Riley says the current EPA proposal for bio-mass biodiesel at 2.1-billion gallons is too low, given the fact 2.9-billion gallons were produced last year. To submit comments, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association website is iowarfa.org.
The comment period ends August 31st. Iowa is the nation’s number-one ethanol producer with 43 plants churning out more than four-billion gallons a year, or almost one-third of the nation’s ethanol.
Once again, that website address is iowarfa.org.
