12.01.2009 11:00 am

EPA says not now to ethanol boost in gas

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — They brought in Democratic Party muscle and a Minnesota Vikings linebacker to help make the case.

Even so, the ethanol industry and the St. Louis-based National Corn Growers Association took a jarring hit hit this morning when the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would delay…

Tags: Bill Lambrecht, Bob Dinneen, Chad Greenway, Clean Air Act, Craig Cox, Energy Department, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Working Group, ethanol, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Growth Energy, National Corn Growers Association, National Football League, National Marine Manufacturers Association, Outdoor Equipment Institute, Renewable Fuel Standard, Renewable Fuels Association, Wesley Clark

10.05.2009 4:37 pm

Congressional investigation takes aim at ethanol

By Bill Lambrecht

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — What Congress giveth, Congress also taketh away.

That’s the concern of Midwestern ethanol-makers and their corn farmer brethren in the aftermath of a surprisingly strong report by the Government Accountability Office concluding that ethanol’s 45-cent per gallon tax credit is unnecessary.

Congress’s…

Tags: Bill Lambrecht, Environmental Protection Agency, ethanol, Government Accountability Office, Renewable Fuels Association

EPA says not now to ethanol boost in gas

Congressional investigation takes aim at ethanol

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