The Obama administration’s decision to put off issuing quotas for the use of renewable fuels this year sets up fights in Congress and the courts over a program that’s been bitterly contested for nearly a decade. The delay, announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, follows months of fighting between refiners and ethanol producers over a proposal by the agency to lower the quotas for ethanol, biodiesel and cellulosic fuels. With the EPA nearly a year late in setting the mandates for 2014 under a Bush-era law, fuel blenders were left scratching their heads all year over how much of the additive they were supposed to be using. “The powers that be in Washington always tend to procrastinate, but this has been getting ridiculous,” Pavel Molchanov , an analyst at Raymond James & Associates, said in a research note. “There is no precedent for this.” The 2005 law […]