Ethanol industry leaders say the EPA’s recent change of policy on Small Refinery Exemptions is a start, but there is still a lot of work to do.
Geoff Cooper with the Renewable Fuels Association tells Brownfield the EPA’s change, of course, does not take care of re-allocating ethanol gallons that should have been blended with gasoline in years past. “Unfortunately, I don’t see this as applying immediately to those gallons and we think we’re going to have to continue working with EPA to claw back those lost volumes from the past.”
Cooper and Brian Jennings with the American Coalition for Ethanol say the EPA should formally reject all 66 pending requests for small refinery exemptions.
