In fact, it is running what could be the definitive test of fish oil-based drugs: a study of whether adding Vascepa to a statin medicine in patients with high triglycerides reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Others include Oklahoma City, prospering on the shale-fracking boom in oil and gas, and Denver, which is adding jobs in construction, professional services and mining.
"Their argument would be: Let's just live with the current mandate and see how that goes before we start adding to it, " he says, adding that Big Oil doesn't want to sound too anti-ethanol.