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Weeks after biofuel quotas furor, EPA faces Senate grilling

The much-anticipated hearing by the Senate subcommittee on regulatory affairs and federal management will likely increase congressional attention to the pitfalls of the decade-old biofuels policy as it faces a fresh wave of criticism from policymakers, the oil industry and environmentalists. Introduced in 2005 and a pillar of two presidential administrations, the RFS was aimed at cutting America’s dependence on foreign oil and shift the nation to cleaner energy sources.