For the second time in as many weeks, a key congressional committee held a hearing to consider funding options for improving the nation’s infrastructure. Throughout the hearing, senators emphasized the need to find direct funding opportunities — such as raising the motor fuel excise tax — because private financing does not provide a complete solution, especially in rural communities.
02-09-2017 A number of Republican Senators from states that produce renewable fuels met on Jan. 5 with Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald Trump鈥檚 nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
01-06-2017 Republican Leadership indicated that a massive infrastructure plan may not be the first order of business when President-elect Donald Trump takes office, despite campaign promises that a $1 trillion infrastructure package would be delivered within his first 100 days.
01-05-2017 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Nov. 10 that it is proposing to deny recent requests to change the “point of obligation” under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) from refiners and importers downstream to “position holders” at the rack, including many fuel marketers and blenders. The decision marks an important positive development for 黑料社区members. 黑料社区has spent more than a year educating EPA and the entire fuel marketing community on this issue and urging EPA to maintain the current point of of obligation.
11-14-2016 Less than one week after Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States, it is clear that the President-elect places a high priority on infrastructure spending. “We are going to . . . rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people back to work as we rebuild it,” Trump said in his victory speech.
11-14-2016 Donald Trump has been elected the 45th President of the United States. His victory has stunned pollsters, political prognosticators, and represents a severe rebuke to the political and media establishment. Voters have selected the ultimate political outsider.
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