The legal action by the biofuels industry against the EPA over Small Refinery Waivers and biofuel blending obligations continue.
Geoff Cooper with the Renewable Fuels Association tells Brownfield that additional court briefs were filed Thursday. He says the new EPA administrator has taken steps to revoke his predecessor’s exemptions, but EPA has failed to account for the 1-point-4 billion gallons of biofuels that were supposed to be blended for 2018. “EPA is now saying they’re rejecting those waivers but they’re not requiring the refiners to make up that lost volume, so it’s really sort of a hollow victory for the biofuels industry.” Cooper says even though EPA revoked the waivers, the agency isn’t requiring refiners to do anything different or make up for lost biofuel demand.
