EPA, biodiesel sector pause lawsuit, seeking RFS deal

EPA and biodiesel producers have agreed to pause litigation over the renewable fuel standard (RFS) in order to seek a deal over specific recordkeeping mandates related to food waste, in a case now severed from broader litigation against the agency’s RFS volumes rule for 2020, which is in abeyance after EPA in June retroactively cut volumes for that year. The parties in a Sept. 8 joint motion ask the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to...