Environmentalists file ESA suit over RFS volumes

The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is suing EPA over its recently finalized renewable fuel standard (RFS) biofuel blending volumes rules for 2020, 2021 and 2022, citing the adverse impacts to protected species and the environment of biofuel production spurred by the program. In the first of several likely suits, CBD filed its challenge July 20 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit over the rules , which the agency published in the Federal Register...