Minnesota Governor Tim Walz calls small refinery exemptions
the biggest threat the ethanol industry has faced.
On a conference call with reporters this Thursday morning, Walz says the unprecedented waivers are causing irreparable harm.
“It’s kind of indicative of like long-term markets, and once you lose them, and what I’m very fearful of is that if there’s not an aggressive announcement, then (the Trump Administration) has dealt a death blow to an incredibly innovative American industry that started right here in the Heartland.”
Walz, a Democrat and chair of the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition, sent the Trump Administration a joint letter with South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem recommending ways to mitigate the effects of EPA’s RFS waivers.
