date:Aug 18, 2012
Governor Beverly Perdue of North Carolina and Governor Mike Beebe of Arkansas officially petitioned the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider the RFS in seperate letters sent earlier this week.
Perdue said that it was nowbeyond disputethat the country was going through a severe prolonged drought ofhistoric proportions. She argued that the RFS requirement to use corn and soybeans for transportation fuel was causingdirect harm.
Whatever the final damage done by the severe lack o