EPA responds to vocal ethanol rating critic

Agriculture Online
Dan Looker
Successful Farming magazine Business Editor
5/12/2009, 3:09 PM CDT


The Environmental Protection Agency has responded to an Iowa senator who says it shouldn't be rating the carbon footprint of ethanol based on estimates of how farmers are planting virgin timber and grasslands in other nations.

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) a long time advocate of ethanol production, repeated his criticism of the EPA's methods Tuesday.

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