EPA asks D.C. Circuit to stay refiners’ RFS waiver suits

EPA is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to put on hold consolidated litigation filed by small refiners challenging the agency’s denial in September of dozens of requests for renewable fuel standard (RFS) waivers, aiming to halt the cases pending a ruling by the Supreme Court on the agency’s waiver policy. In an unopposed Jan. 26 motion filed in the consolidated case Kern Oil and Refining Co., v. EPA , the agency says that...