Trump, eyeing Farm Country, starts working on ethanol industry's year-old wishlist

Reuters: President Donald Trump, looking to shore up support in the U.S. Farm Belt during a tight race for re-election, is taking steps to help producers of corn-based ethanol using a list of policy goals that a group of Midwest senators discussed with him a year ago, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

On Sept. 12, 2019, Trump met with the senators, who were frustrated by the administration’s management of U.S. biofuels policy. They argued that Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency had been helping the oil industry at the expense of farmers dependent on ethanol sales, and presented him with a list of ways he could fix the problem, according to five sources familiar with the matter.

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