New RFA Chair Says Increasing E15 Grows Ethanol Market

Renewable Fuels Association Chairman Neil Koehler, CEO of Pacific Ethanol, says the Trump administration announcement instructing the Environmental Protection Agency to initiate a rulemaking process that would extend the summer Reid Vapor Pressure waiver to E15 is good news for the ethanol industry, farmers, retailers and consumers.

Pacific Ethanol owns and operates nine production facilities, four in the Western states of California, Oregon and Idaho, and five in the Midwestern states of Illinois and Nebraska. Koehler was featured on Fox Business just as the announcement was made official on Tuesday.

In this interview, he discusses the significance of the president’s action – Interview with RFA chair Neil Koehler, Pacific Ethanol