Photo Credit: Ag News Wire The Biden administration plans a thorough review of recent EPA decisions involving the federal mandate to mix corn ethanol and other biofuels into gasoline, said Michael Regan, the White House nominee to run the agency. “The RFS is definitely a priority for this administration,” Regan said at a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Praised as a consensus builder as secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality, Regan repeatedly told senators that it was vital to understand all sides of an issue: “You must be willing to put yourself in other people’s shoes.”
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Several senators asked Regan how he would approach the rule defining waters of the U.S. – WOTUS – written under the Obama administration and the Navigable Waters Protection Rule now on hold released by the Trump administration. Regan says, if confirmed, he would take a look at what EPA’s options are to address any kind of lingering concerns whether that be litigious or concerns with stakeholders and bring all to the table to understand those concerns.
“We do need to move forward to provide certainty to our farming community, especially our small farmers, so decisions can be made and investments are not stranded on our sidelines,” Regan says. “But I also want to be sure we do that in a way where we are protecting our water quality, our wetlands and our bays.”
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