Ethics watchdog calls for investigation of EPA assault on renewable fuels.

[GeorgeGist]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a DC-based public-policy watchdog, has called for an investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent (and surprising) decision to gut renewable fuel standards.

The fuel standards, which detail the amount of climate-friendly biofuels (ethanol blends and biodiesel) refineries must produce each year, were established under a 2007 law supported by both the Bush and Obama administrations.

Environmentalists were therefore surprised six months ago when the EPA proposed slashing the annual quotas for biofuels.

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Things got even more interesting last week when Reuters reported that the EPA decision on biofuels came after the notoriously-well-connected Carlyle Group and Delta Airlines weighed in with VP Biden, via intermediaries decided to undermine a bipartisan environmentally-friendly law that even George W. Bush liked.

http://americablog.com/2014/05/ethics-watchdog-calls-investigation-epa-assault-renewable-fuel-standards.html

[randys1]

1. If true, then i give up for a 2nd time today

[Mojorabbit]

3. Same here! nt

[woo me with science]

2. We desperately need more "Ethics Watchdogs."

[woo me with science]

4. kick