Refinery States Seek to Bar Trump from Shifting Biofuel Mandates

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U.S. Senators from states hosting refineries will seek to prevent the Trump Administration from reallocating biofuel blending mandates from exempted small refiners to larger ones, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a bill led and co-sponsored by several Republican lawmakers. Senator Mike Lee of Utah is leading the so-called Protect Consumers from Reallocation Costs Act of 2025 bill, which the Senators plan to introduce on Tuesday amid a hotly contested issue between America’s Farm Belt and oil industry—both Republican darlings but…