Refiners Target EPA’s Blanket Denial Of RFS Waivers In D.C. Circuit Suit

Refiners are charging that EPA’s blanket denial of small refiners’ requests for economic hardship waivers from renewable fuel standard (RFS) biofuel blending mandates willfully misinterprets the Clean Air Act and relies on ‘extra-statutory factors’ and vacated legal precedent to support the policy. In the redacted brief filed by multiple refiners in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit June 15 in Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company, LLC., et al, v. EPA , refiners seek to overturn EPA’s...