EPA Weighs Dozens Of ‘Gap Year’ RFS Waivers But Plans Ethanol Boost

EPA is weighing 52 requests from small refiners for unprecedented “gap year” waivers of renewable fuel standard (RFS) blending mandates for prior compliance years that biofuel makers warn are unlawful, but the agency is also planning a supplemental proposal to hike years-old ethanol production mandates alongside the waivers. The seemingly contradictory plans are unlikely to satisfy either refiners who want repeal or massive reform of the RFS, or biofuels producers who have long faulted RFS waivers for damaging demand for...