US president Joe Biden has announced on a trip to Iowa that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will temporarily lift regulations prohibiting the use of an ethanol-gasoline blend known as E15 in the summer, despite its contribution to smog during the warmer months. The president said this regulation would be waived to lower the price of gasoline at the pump for many Americans, the newspaper adds. The policy is the “latest move by Mr Biden’s White House that runs counter to promises he made as a presidential candidate to pivot the US away from fossil fuels”, it continues, including encouraging oil companies to drill on unused land. 

Guest post from The New York Times