Statewide Iowa (RI) — Fourth District Congressman Randy Feenstra says there will be a vote to end the EPA smog rule that keeps E15 gasoline from being sold nationwide in the summer.
The U.S. House deadline for the bill passed Wednesday, and Feenstra says there were reasons the vote didn’t happen.
Feenstra says the missed deadline doesn’t kill the issue.
Feenstra leads the House Rural Domestic Energy Council and has been negotiating with lawmakers who represent states with oil refineries in trying to find a compromise on E15.
The need for a new bill came after House GOP leaders removed a mandate for year-round E15 sales from a budget bill that passed in January.
The president of the Renewable Fuels Association says he is not terribly optimistic that we’re going to see the E15 legislation passed before summer.
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