Pruitt may limit ethanol market traders

The Hill: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is considering taking action to limit what he sees as speculative trade of ethanol credits in an effort to keep prices down.

Pruitt told reporters that one idea is to limit who can trade the credits that some refiners have to buy to comply with the federal ethanol mandate.

“There’s some things on the trading platform I think should happen no matter what,” Pruitt told reporters at EPA headquarters Monday, according to the Houston Chronicle.

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