Lawmakers are preparing to vote on expanding the use of corn-based ethanol fuel, marking the potential culmination of a years-long debate as policymakers look for ways to bring gas prices down.
Allowing year-round sales of E15 — an ethanol fuel blend that is limited during the summer months — has long been a priority of Midwestern corn growers and the ethanol industry more broadly, who want to expand the US biofuel market. But refineries have been divided over the extra costs that such an expansion could impose on them.
The House plans to vote on the most recent proposal this ...