D.C. Circuit pauses suit over 2023 RFS waiver denials

A federal appeals court has paused consolidated litigation challenging EPA’s July denial of multiple small refinery waivers from renewable fuel standard (RFS) biofuel blending mandates, after one appeals court last week scrapped EPA’s earlier denial of Gulf Coast refiners’ waivers, while other courts have yet to rule in similar pending suits. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Nov. 28 granted refiners’ unopposed motion to hold the case, Calumet Montana Refining LLC v. EPA , in...