The ethanol industry is confident that newly confirmed EPA chief Lee Zeldin will be supportive of its top issues. Zeldin, a former New York Representative, has been critical of ethanol in the past, but the industry is confident that will change now that the Senate-confirmed EPA chief must answer to the president.
That is Troy Bredenkamp of the Renewable Fuels Association. Zeldin told senators that national year-round sales will be up to Congress to decide.
Bredenkamp agrees that Trump’s fight for dollars to extend his expiring 2017 tax cuts could cut into Inflation Reduction Act funding for the 45Z sustainable aviation fuel tax credits but adds this.
Bredenkamp also discusses the Biden tailpipe emissions rule that the ethanol industry considers an EV mandate and went to court over.
