Trump’s Agriculture Pick Says She’ll Honor All Fuel Sources

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President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee American farming was once head of a group that was among the loudest opponents of a favorite U.S. agriculture product: biofuels.

But Brooke Rollins, a Texas native who’s Trump’s choice for U.S. secretary of agriculture, vowed in her confirmation hearing Jan. 23 to “elevate and honor all sources of fuel. She said she looks forward to continuing Trump’s “current energy dominance plan,” of which biofuels is an “important piece.”

Rollins spent 15 years as head of the Texas Public Policy Institute, before moving on in 2018. The conservative think tank backed fossil fuels and vocally opposed U.S. corn-based ethanol. At the time, traditional fuelmakers found themselves at odds with biofuels, with a federal blending mandate dividing the two traditionally right-leaning sectors of energy and agricultu…