D.C. Circuit Poised To Hear Refiners’ Suit Over EPA Approval Of E15 Sales

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral argument April 13 in refiners’ challenge to the Trump EPA’s approval of 15 percent ethanol fuel (E15) for year-round use, an authorization that is key to ethanol producers’ hopes of maintaining sales in the face of possible long-term declines in liquid fuel demand. A D.C. Circuit panel of Judges Judith Rogers, Nina Pillard and Robert Wilkins, all Democratic appointees, will hear the case, American Fuel &...