Biofuels Sector Pessimistic On RFS Volumes As Waiver Decisions Loom

Biofuels industry groups are expressing pessimism that EPA will preserve biofuel blending mandates in its renewable fuel standards (RFS) program as it weighs waiver requests from the mandates from dozens of small refineries, amid signs EPA is again leaning toward granting refiners’ waiver requests. During July 31 testimony at an EPA hearing in Ypsilanti, MI, on the agency’s proposed RFS blending volumes for 2020, biofuels producers urged the agency to increase volumes to compensate for the coming waivers, to re-allocate...