Sentences with phrase «supporting ethanol mandates»

However, during her 2008 presidential run, Clinton flip - flopped and began supporting ethanol mandates — quite possibly in an attempt to curry favor with Iowans.

Not exact matches

Obama has, however, also been a supporter of ethanol made primarily from corn — a prominent industry in his home state of Illinois — and recently told farmers he supports federal mandates to make nine billion gallons (34 billion liters) of ethanol to use as fuel this year.

Over the past few years the EPA has been lobbied by a diverse assortment of industry groups to repeal the ethanol mandate, and policymakers have supported that with introduction of legislation.

The circle goes like this: Tax dollars and mandates create and support an ethanol industry.

Some green activists supported mandates for biofuel, hoping they would pave the way for next - generation ethanol, which would use non-food plants.

Reform legislation in the U.S. by environmental - leaning Democrats — New Mexico's Tom Udall and Vermont's Peter Welch — is now gathering support in both houses of Congress, aided by an environmental lobby determined to end subsidies to ethanol as well as its mandated use.

Dennis Avery crows that even the environmental movement is seeking his support for ending ethanol mandates.

Support for the ethanol industry, which blossomed because of a system of tax breaks followed by the fuel mandate, has long been bipartisan, and the current debate is split more along regional than partisan lines.

Unfortunately, this doesn't stop RFA from cherry - picking data to create «facts» that support ever - increasing use of ethanol despite real data that strongly argues the ethanol mandates under the Renewable Fuel Standard could negatively impact consumers and the broader economy.