RFA, ACE and Growth Energy file motion to support EPA’s denial of 69 SRE applications
In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy, the American Coalition for Ethanol and National Farmers Union filed a motion to intervene in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to deny 69 petitions from refineries seeking small refinery exemptions (SREs) from the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program for one or more of the compliance years between 2016 and 2021.
On June 3, 2022, concurrent with its final rulemaking to set the volumes for the 2020, 2021 and 2022 renewable volume obligations, EPA announced the denial of 69 petitions from refineries seeking exemptions from the RFS program for one or more compliance years between 2016 and 2021. Along with the April 2022 denial of petitions for RFS SREs, these denials apply EPA’s current interpretation of the Clean Air Act SRE provisions, consistent with a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit holding in Renewable Fuels Association et al. v. EPA.
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