Biofuels Groups Vow To Fight Wheeler’s 11th-Hour RFS Waiver Approvals

Biofuels groups are pursuing litigation to challenge former Trump EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s last-minute approval of three renewable fuel standard (RFS) compliance waivers, an action that one industry group calls a “sucker punch” for biofuels producers even though the approvals are much more limited than previously expected. EPA announced it had granted three small refinery exemptions (SREs) in an update to its website Jan. 19, one of the final agency actions under the Trump administration. President Joe Biden’s EPA will...