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Higher-ethanol fuel fight resumes – E&E News by POLITICO

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The annual debate over letting gas stations sell higher-ethanol fuel in summer is heating up again as industry groups await key decisions by the Biden administration.

Officials are weighing two possibilities to allow sales of 15 percent ethanol fuel year-round: a request by eight Midwestern states for a permanent waiver of summer restrictions, and an emergency measure to temporarily permit such sales throughout the country. Fuel that’s 10 percent ethanol, called E10, is standard nationally.

Biofuel groups partially cheered a Reuters news report, based on anonymous sources, that the administration is preparing to grant the states’ request but not make

NS mine is allowed to resume operations

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HALIFAX –

A Cape Breton coal mine that had been ordered to cease operations after two roof falls last summer is being permitted to resume year-round production.

The underground operation at the Donkin mine has been closed, and 130 workers laid off, since a July 15 roof fall, which followed a smaller roof fall on July 9.

The announcement today from the Nova Scotia Labor Department says a third-party consultant has reviewed a plan to deal with humidity that affects roof stability in the warmer months and concludes a stop-work order could be lifted.

It was the second of two