By Ford Turner, The Morning Call, Jun 17, 2022, at 3:30 pm
HARRISBURG — The Wolf administration on Friday acknowledged “rolling outages” of diesel fuel across the state and said it was temporarily dropping a biodiesel requirement — a move that will allow out-of-state diesel to be sold in Pennsylvania.
A trucking industry official told The Morning Call that one of the entities that could not find diesel fuel recently was an ambulance company.
Word of the administration’s action on biodiesel was conveyed by Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding to Gov. Tom Wolf in a letter dated Friday that was shared with the newspaper.
Earlier this week, Republican lawmakers heard testimony that spot outages of diesel were being seen, and that a widespread outage would be “devastating” to the economy.
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