Looming Argument Will Test EPA’s Landmark RFS ‘Set’ Biofuels Rule

EPA is preparing to defend its biofuel blending targets for refiners under the renewable fuel standard (RFS) for 2023, 2024 and 2025 at Nov. 1 oral argument before the D.C. Circuit, in a first-time judicial test of the agency’s discretion in setting such volumes under its own authority that could establish new precedent for the future of the program. At argument in Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) et al. v. EPA, et al. , refiners and environmentalists alike will seek...