As EPA Plan Looms, Lobbying Intensifies Over RFS Biofuel Volume Cuts

Lobbying efforts by biofuels groups, refiners and others are accelerating ahead of EPA’s release of a proposal expected to reduce biofuel blending requirements under the renewable fuel standard (RFS) for 2021 and potentially 2020, even as required volumes could rebound to statutory targets in 2022. In a series of recent and upcoming meetings with White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) officials, stakeholders are pitching to either reduce volumes or safeguard them at existing levels, as EPA weighs whether...