Efforts to expand the market for corn-based ethanol likely will be significantly delayed after an attempt to attach a key provision to must-pass
Lawmakers had been working to pass a measure allowing year-round sales of higher-ethanol E15 gasoline as part of the latest government funding package. But the amendment was scrapped on Thursday, in a blow to ethanol producers and large refineries.
“We’ve known for several months now that the appropriations bill would be the best way to get this done in the near term,”