Com Grower Grassroots Action Halts Issuance Of Oxygenate Waiver
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The National Corn Growers,
its 32,000 members and con
cerned members of Congress
can take satisfaction in a job
well done.
They persuaded President
Clinton not to grant a waiver
allowing California an ex
emption from the federal Re-
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and other ethanol proponents
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the waiver during his final
hours in office.
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eliminating the oxygenate
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entific justification for grant
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members argued effectively
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• The exemption would
adversely affect air quality in
California.
• Investment in
new ethanol plants
would be jeopard
ized due to the un
certainty this waiver
would generate.
“Granting Cali
fornia a waiver
never made any
sense. I can under
stand why state offi
cials wanted to
remove MTBE from
their gasoline sup
plies, but the waiver
would have unfairly
hurt ethanol. Cali
fornia would have
gotten dirtier air,
and the good repu
tation of ethanol
would have been
slandered,” said
NCGA President
Lee Klein, a farmer
from Battle Creek,
Neb.
Klein lauded
those congressional
members who con
veyed the corn and
ethanol industry’s
concerns to the Clin
ton Administration,
particularly Sens.
Tom Harkin (D-IA),
Tom Daschle (D
-SD), and Dick
Durbin (D-IL) for
extraordinary ser
vice on behalf of
their farmer constit
uents.
The National
Corn Growers Asso
ciation mission is to
create and increase
opportunities for
corn growers in a
changing world and
to enhance corn’s
profitability and
usage. NCGA repre
sents more than
30,000 members, 25
affiliated state corn
grower organiza
tions, and the inter
ests of hundreds of
thousands of
growers who con
tribute to state
checkoff programs.