Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Keeps Ethanol-Gasoline Requirements Despite Corn Shortages

Nov. 20, 2012

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will continue to require a third of the U.S.'s corn to be converted into ethanol and blended into gas, according to National Public Radio (NPR). The EPA claims it would be too expensive for oil companies to change their refineries. Full article. 

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