Petitioners Charge EPA Lacks ‘Latitude’ For ‘Harmful’ Expanded RFS Program

Environmentalists and refiners are pressing legal arguments against EPA’s renewable fuel standard (RFS) “set” rule that they say causes “inexorable” environmental damage and promotes biofuel consumption “above all else” when the Clean Air Act does not require this, and EPA now lacks “latitude” for its mistaken statutory interpretation. “EPA never demonstrates the Rule will have climate benefits, let alone that they are sufficient to justify the Rule’s high costs. It also ignored the inexorable environmental and environmental justice harms that...