Refiners, Biofuels Groups Battle Over EPA’s 2020 RFS Production Goals

Refiners and biofuels groups are sparring in legal briefs over whether the Trump EPA’s renewable fuel standard (RFS) production goals for 2020 were too low or too high, in a case that poses significant implications for the Biden administration’s approach to setting RFS volumes for future compliance years. In the consolidated case RFS Power Coalition, et al. v. EPA, et al. , pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, oil sector groups argue that...