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EPA defends controversial biofuels program at Senate hearing
2015-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The U.S. environmental regulator on Thursday defended its handling of the nation's controversial renewable fuels program at a congressional hearing, the first since its new biofuels targets last month provoked a furor among corn farmers and oil refiners. At the hearing by the Senate subcommittee on regulatory affairs and federal management, U.S. lawmakers criticized the agency for years-long delays to quotas and for last month setting unattainable targets for the amount of corn-based ethanol and...
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