WASHINGTON — With the record drought spreading across major cropland of the continental U.S. causing the corn harvest to shrink and prices to spike, 25 U.S. senators urged Eviornmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to use her existing waiver authority as soon as possible to adjust the corn-ethanol mandate for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
"As stressful weather conditions continue to push corn yields lower and prices upward, the economic ramifications for consumers, livestock and poultry producers, food manufacturers and foodservice providers will become more severe," the senators wrote in a letter to Jackson. "We ask you to. . .
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