Trump EPA Retains Biden-Era Stance On Venue For RFS Waiver Denials

EPA is sticking to its Biden-era position that its mass denials of renewable fuel standard (RFS) waivers for small refiners constitute “nationally” applicable actions that must be litigated in the District of Columbia Circuit, after the Supreme Court denied the agency’s request to stay litigation pending a review by the Trump administration. In a Feb. 20 brief filed in EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, LLC, et al. , the agency again asserts that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...