(NAFB) – Last week’s D.C. federal court ruling does not mean retailers must stop selling 15-percent ethanol-blended gas immediately.

The court ruling was another setback for the ethanol industry, discouraging future blending pump investments if it sticks, and coming on the heels of a Supreme Court ruling also unfavorable to ethanol.

But Renewable Fuels Association chief Geoff Cooper says nearly 2,500 retailers can continue summertime sales of E15 for now.

And if EPA, RFA and others seek a rehearing by the full court.

Separately, a House appropriations panel advanced an Interior-EPA spending bill that would drop curbs on EPA regulating livestock as climate polluters. Ranking panel Republican David Joyce of Ohio.

Joyce called the move a “top-down, draconian” measure that would hurt producers, arguing instead for “free-market, innovative,” climate solutions, while predicting House-Senate negotiators would have to drop the provisions before the bill is signed into law.