More than 40 RNG leads ask EPA to set cellulosic biofuel RVOs at at least 650 million gallons in 2020

In Washington, more than forty renewable natural gas (RNG) industry leaders sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler asking him to set the Renewable Fuel Standard’s (RFS) 2020 cellulosic biofuel requirement at a level of at least 650 million gallons to account for all RNG that will be produced and available next year.

The letter comes on the heels of comments from more than two dozen RNG stakeholders to EPA last week at the public hearing on the agency’s proposed RFS 2020 biofuel volumes. Consistent with those comments, the RNG industry letter impresses on EPA the importance of setting the 2020 cellulosic biofuel volume requirement at a level that incorporates all RNG produced and available next year, including new volumes from more than 30 production sites currently being built. The letter also underscores the common-sense notion that the cellulosic biofuel volume requirement should be adjusted upward to account for the impact of small refinery exemptions (SREs) granted by EPA.