EPA Faces Legal, Political Doubts Over RFS Plan To Cut Biofuel Volumes

August 27, 2021
EPA is facing difficult legal and political questions over its plan, recently submitted to the White House for review, to reduce biofuel blending volumes required under the renewable fuel standard (RFS), especially its reported effort to reduce volumes not only for 2021 but also retroactively for 2020. EPA Aug. 26 sent its long-delayed proposal to set 2021 blending volumes to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for pre-publication review, according to OMB’s website. EPA is also expected...


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