The Associated Press reports that the Environmental Protection Agency will announce its decision on Gov. Rick Perry’s ethanol waiver request at 12:00 noon Central on Thursday.

Kathleen Hartnett White, Director of the Foundation’s Center for Natural Resources, has chronicled the harmful effects of the federal government’s misguided food-for-fuel policies. To learn more about this issue, here are the links to her statement on Gov. Rick Perry’s ethanol waiver request and her newspaper commentary, “The Folly of Food as Fuel.”