EPA Seeks Remand Of Trump-Era RFS Waivers, Opening Door To New Policy

August 27, 2021
EPA is asking a federal appeals court to voluntarily remand Trump-era decisions that granted 31 small refinery waivers from renewable fuel standard (RFS) compliance and denied a smaller number of waiver requests, opening the door for the Biden administration to overhaul the agency’s waiver policies in light of recent court rulings. In an Aug. 25 motion filed in the consolidated suit Sinclair Wyoming Refining, v. EPA, the agency asks the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...


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