Biofuels Groups Defend EPA’s Mass Denials Of Small Refinery RFS Waivers

Biofuels groups are defending EPA’s mass rejection of renewable fuel standard (RFS) waivers for small refineries, pushing back on refiners’ claims that the denials rely on a regional appellate ruling that is no longer in force, and rejecting claims that EPA re-wrote statutory conditions for granting waivers and acted with unlawful retroactive effect. In their Nov. 1 intervenor brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Sinclair Wyoming Refining Co. LLC, et al....