Oil Sector Splits On EPA Proposal To Deny Small Refinery RFS Waivers

Oil sector groups are divided over EPA’s proposal to deny all remaining requests from small refiners for compliance waivers from the renewable fuel standard (RFS), with smaller refiners arguing the plan is illogical and unlawful, while bigger firms say large-scale exemptions are unwarranted. The divisions mark a rare alignment among bio- and some fossil-fuel groups when it comes to the RFS and likely bolsters the agency’s planned denial of dozens of small refinery exemptions (SREs) from the program’s biofuel blending...