Refiner Echoes EPA, D.C. Circuit Arguments With Defense Of RFS Waivers

Merchant refiner HollyFrontier is defending EPA’s policy on issuance of waivers from renewable fuel standard (RFS) compliance from an appellate court suit filed by biofuel producers, echoing agency arguments that proved successful in defending the waivers in a related lawsuit recently decided by the same court. In Advanced Biofuels Association (ABFA) v. EPA , pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, biofuel producers are challenging EPA’s alleged 2017 shift in policy that cleared the...