A coalition of renewable fuel and farm groups is signaling all is not lost despite the Supreme Court overturning last year’s Tenth Circuit Court decision limiting EPA’s small refinery exemption program.
American Coalition for Ethanol CEO Brian Jennings says while SCOTUS failed to affirm the circuit court reining in exemptions only to situations involving extensions, other key elements of the appeal were not challenged and remain the law of the land.
“And that is that refiners have to prove that it was RFS compliance itself that caused disproportionate economic hardship for them, not outside factors.
