Ethanol groups have asked the courts to order the EPA to tell them who received small refinery waivers. RFA President Geoff Cooper tells Brownfield the RFA and Growth Energy jointly filed Freedom of Information Act requests with EPA to find out which refiners don’t have to blend ethanol, without success. “They haven’t been cooperative at all, and this really goes all the way back to 2017, 2018.”
Cooper says EPA refused to say which oil refiners received waivers claiming it was confidential business information, so they filed suit asking the courts to force EPA to release the information.
