Steve King: Shutdown Favors Coal Producers Over EPA
National Journal - Newseum
With a goal of weaning the nation's cars off foreign oil, Congress created the renewable fuels standard in 2005. This mandate requires increasingly large amounts of biofuels each year to be blended with gasoline. As most of the mandate is currently met with corn-produced ethanol, last summer's drought sent corn prices soaring and caused the mandate to come under intense bipartisan scrutiny.

Join National Journal as we convene members of Congress and experts from both sides of the aisle to explore whether the mandate should be revised, eliminated, or remain as is, and what the Environmental Protection Agency can and should do to respond to concerns about the policy.