EPA's 2018 Renewable Fuel Standard Rule Draws Competing Legal Attacks

Environmentalists, refiners and the biodiesel industry are leveling a wide range of sometimes contradictory legal accusations over EPA's rule setting biofuel blending volumes for 2018 under the renewable fuel standard (RFS), as refiners and environmentalists seek to scrap or limit the rule, and biofuels interests seek to maximize volumes. In opening briefs filed July 27 in the consolidated U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suit American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), et al. v. EPA, et...