SIOUX FALLS, SD, (KELO.com)– President Donald Trump takes away California’s authority to set its own laws on vehicle emission standards.
The Board of Directors for the American Coalition for Ethanol, Troy Knecht, says he is disappointed.
“[South Dakota has] been talking about low-carbon fuel, I guess since California went with that mandate…We’ve got plans for low-carbon scores here in our state that ship ethanol out to that market…It’s also kind of been a leading thing for other states on the west coast…We’re having conversations about that here in the midwest as well…It’s definitely a step backwards,” he says.
Knecht says that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler put federal laws above the state laws.
He says, “It’s really odd for the Administrator of the EPA…I mean that’s not his job, that’s not the department’s job. Politics should be [the] furthest thing from their mind, [the] environment should be number one…This proves that it’s just not the philosophy.”
Knecht says that clean air should be the EPA’s main goal.
