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PENNSYLVANIA MASTER CORN GROWERS ASSOC., INC.
Corn Brief Filed
On Renewable Oxygen
Requirement
ST. LOUIS, Mo.— The
National Com Growers Asso
ciation (NCGA), along with the
American Farm Bureau Feder
ation (AFBF) and the Ameri
can Coalition for Ethanol
(ACE) filed a joint amicus
curaie, “friends of the court,”
brief with the U.S. Court of
Appeals, District of Columbia
on the Renewable Oxygenate
Requirement (ROR). The brief
was filed to address efforts by
the petroleum and methanol
industries to stop the ROR.
The ROR was developed
and proposed by the Environ
mental Protection Agency
(ERA) to address various envi
ronmental, energy security and
economic issues achievable
with the use of renewable fuels
in the reformulated gasoline
(RFG) program. Without the
ROR, the NCGA and others
contend that the RFG program
would be a one oxygenate pro
gram for methyl tertiary butyl
ether (MTBE), a methanol
based oxygenate produced by
the petroleum industry.
Rod Gangwish, NCGA
president and a Shelton, Neb.,
corn grower said, “The ROR
will help to ensure a role for
ethanol in RFG. The EPA pro
mulgated this rule after careful
consideration of the environ
mental, economic and energy
security benefits that this pro
gram would help to achieve.”
The brief filed by the
NCGA, AFBF and ACE cites
historic increasing ethanol pro
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