EPA Asks D.C. Circuit To Halt 2020 RFS Suit Over Challengers’ Objections

EPA is asking a federal appeals court to halt litigation over its renewable fuel standard (RFS) biofuel blending targets for 2020 pending the resolution of a Supreme Court case over EPA’s policy on RFS compliance waivers for small refineries, but renewable fuels groups and refiners challenging the rule say they oppose delaying the suit. In a Feb. 8 motion filed in RFS Power Coalition, et al., v. EPA, et al. , the agency asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for...