The EPA recently denied 54 so-called “gap year” small refinery exemption requests, but Renewable Fuels Association CEO Geoff Cooper tells Brownfield the agency is still considering 31 petitions for 2019 and a couple for 2020.
“We just need EPA and this Administration to adopt that 10th Circuit Court decision from all the way back in January, and that would finally put an end to these exemptions that have eroded the requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard.”
Oil refiners were denied a request to have the 10th Circuit rehear the case.
