Biofuels Groups Protest EPA Plan For Automatic RFS Compliance Delays

Biofuels groups are strongly opposing what they say are EPA’s plans to allow automatic extensions of compliance mandates with the renewable fuel standard (RFS), which they argue would give refiners a free pass to miss deadlines if EPA fails to set biofuel blending volumes on time as it has often failed to do in the past. At a Dec. 3 virtual public hearing, biofuels groups sparred with refiners over the agency’s latest proposal to again punt compliance deadlines, as EPA...