10th Circuit Requires EPA To Reconsider Definition Of ‘Refinery’ In RFS Suit

October 19, 2022
A federal appeals court is requiring EPA to reconsider its definition of the term “refinery,” in a decision scrapping the agency’s 2019 rejection of small refinery waivers from renewable fuel standard (RFS) biofuel blending mandates for Colorado oil refineries, finding EPA wrongly combined two separate refineries for the purposes of RFS compliance. In its unanimous Oct. 17 decision , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit finds that EPA wrongly denied the waivers for Suncor, which operates facilities...


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