Refiner warns of shutdown risk without RFS waiver

November 12, 2021
A small refiner seeking exemptions from EPA’s renewable fuel standard (RFS) biofuel blending program is ramping up pressure on the agency to approve its waiver applications, warning in an amended legal complaint of “crippling” costs as dozens of waivers remain undecided and EPA has yet to propose long-overdue blending volumes. In its Nov. 10 filing in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Calumet Shreveport Refining asks the court to “enjoin enforcement of the Renewable Fuel Standard...


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