Ethanol supporters are upset over reports that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has granted a “hardship waiver” to CVR, an oil refinery owned by billionaire and former Trump adviser Carl Icahn (eye-con).
The waiver allows refiners to bypass their biofuel obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley had this reaction.
“Hundreds of millions, and in some cases billions, of dollars in profit isn’t my definition of a hardship, contrary to what Pruitt might think,” Grassley says.
