14 Jan Kansas’ U.S. Senator Roger Marshall sends letter to USEPA urging against small refinery exemptions
Following multiple conversations with Renew Kansas Biofuels Association staff newly sworn in Senator Dr. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) coordinated and sent a letter to United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler urging against small refinery exemptions. Marshall, a longtime supporter of the biofuels industry, noted the harm granting small refinery exemptions would cause to biofuel processing plants and producers in the Midwest. "Ethanol and biodiesel plants that are already struggling to cope with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic are at risk of closing their doors, cutting off key markets...