Biofuels leaders say approval of 2018 small refinery exemptions would irreversibly undermine RFS.

Jacqui Fatka, Policy editor

April 17, 2019

3 Min Read
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IRFA executive director Monte Shaw (left) and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig (right) discuss harm done to ethanol industry if additional small refinery exemptions are granted by EPA during a press conference at the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol plant on April 17, 2019. Iowa Renewable Fuels Standard

About the Author(s)

Jacqui Fatka

Policy editor, Farm Futures

Jacqui Fatka grew up on a diversified livestock and grain farm in southwest Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications, with a minor in agriculture education, in 2003. She’s been writing for agricultural audiences ever since. In college, she interned with Wallaces Farmer and cultivated her love of ag policy during an internship with the Iowa Pork Producers Association, working in Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Capitol Hill press office. In 2003, she started full time for Farm Progress companies’ state and regional publications as the e-content editor, and became Farm Futures’ policy editor in 2004. A few years later, she began covering grain and biofuels markets for the weekly newspaper Feedstuffs. As the current policy editor for Farm Progress, she covers the ongoing developments in ag policy, trade, regulations and court rulings. Fatka also serves as the interim executive secretary-treasurer for the North American Agricultural Journalists. She lives on a small acreage in central Ohio with her husband and three children.

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