Equality State News

Rep. Cheney, 23 other GOP lawmakers ask EPA to approve renewable fuel standard waivers

By Karen Kidd | May 21, 2020

Wyoming U.S. House Rep. Liz Cheney recently joined 23 other Republican lawmakers to ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to approve renewable fuel standard waiver requests by governors of in oil-producing states.

Wyoming governor asks EPA to relax U.S. renewable fuel standards to help refining industry

By April Bamburg | May 4, 2020

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon joined fellow governors from Utah, Oklahoma and Texas on April 16, in asking EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to expedite a waiver of renewable volume obligations under the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS) in light of the extraordinary issues facing the nation’s oil refineries and the nation as a whole.