WASHINGTON, D.C.—Development Vitality, the nation’s largest biofuels commerce affiliation, filed two intervenor briefs within the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a set of instances consolidated beneath Heart for Organic Range (CBD) v. Environmental Safety Company (EPA) et al., (Case No. 23-1177). These briefs, filed in protection of EPA’s latest RFS “Set” rule for 2023-2025 renewable quantity obligations (RVOs) beneath the Renewable Gasoline Normal (RFS), reply to challenges introduced by oil trade and environmental petitioners.
“Development Vitality has at all times defended the RFS in opposition to false claims, and these newest challenges are not any exception,” mentioned Development Vitality CEO Emily Skor. “It’s previous time for anti-agriculture teams and their allies within the fossil gasoline trade to just accept that the RFS is working as Congress meant — delivering on the nation’s financial, power, and local weather objectives.”
Development Vitality’s temporary in CBD v. EPA buttresses arguments offered by each EPA and an impartial group of scientists, exposing the outdated and debunked analysis behind false claims about land use and the potential to affect endangered species. Development Vitality additional notes that EPA, the Nationwide Marine Fisheries Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service developed a sturdy report of proof, above and past the necessities of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) displaying that biofuel manufacturing just isn’t a menace to protected species.
Development Vitality’s second temporary in response to grease trade petitioners pushes again on the implausible argument that the RFS was not meant to advance the expansion of renewable fuels in 2023 and past. Because the D.C. Circuit itself has held, Congress’s specific goal in adopting the RFS was to “transfer the USA towards higher power independence and safety” and “to scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions.” Advancing the expansion of renewable fuels, right this moment and into the longer term, does simply that, wrote Development Vitality in its protection.
“We’re optimistic that the courts will toss these challenges on the trash heap, alongside numerous others over the past 20 years,” mentioned Skor.
Learn the temporary responding to environmental petitioners right here. Learn the temporary responding to grease trade petitioners right here.
