WASHINGTON, D.C.—Development Power, the nation’s largest biofuels commerce affiliation, filed a movement to intervene within the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in response to the Hunt Refining Firm’s lawsuit in search of to reverse the Environmental Safety Company’s (EPA) resolution to reject unwarranted Small Refinery Exemptions (SREs). The movement is simply the newest in a sequence of authorized efforts Development Power has led to guard the integrity of the Renewable Gasoline Commonplace (RFS), which requires oil refiners to mix a certain amount of biofuels into their gasoline annually.
“EPA made the fitting name by following the info, which present there isn’t any financial justification for exempting one other oil firm from its obligations below the RFS,” stated Development Power CEO Emily Skor. “Development Power is not going to let these challenges go unanswered as a result of we all know how essential the RFS is to our local weather, our financial system, and our vitality safety. Previous abuse of SREs destroyed demand for billions of gallons of biofuels, undermining our means to carry down costs on the pump with clear, American renewable gasoline. It’s essential that the courts and EPA proceed to reject efforts to roll again the clock.”
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Background
On July 14, 2023, EPA introduced the denial of 26 petitions from refineries in search of SREs from their Renewable Quantity Obligations (RVOs) below the RFS for a number of compliance years between 2016 and 2023. In step with the company’s April and July 2022 Denials of Petitions for RFS Small Refinery Exemptions, these denials apply EPA’s present interpretation of the Clear Air Act SRE provisions, in accordance with a U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit holding in Renewable Fuels Affiliation et al. v. EPA.
