Refiners Urge Court To Scrap EPA’s Compressed RFS Compliance Schedule

Refiners say that EPA’s compressed schedule for compliance with the renewable fuel standard (RFS) violated their constitutional rights and must be overturned, in the latest challenge to deadline changes ostensibly designed to soften impacts from the agency’s delay in setting RFS blending targets, but which industry claims instead “exacerbate” its harms. In their opening brief in The San Antonio Refinery, LLC, et al. v. EPA , filed April 18 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...