A coalition representing farmers and ethanol producers immediately responded to final week’s determination of the Fifth Circuit Court docket of Appeals remanding to the U.S. Environmental Safety Company its rejection of six small refinery exemption requests. The next assertion is from the Renewable Fuels Affiliation, Development Vitality, American Coalition for Ethanol and Nationwide Farmers Union.
“Whereas we’re disillusioned by this determination, we’ll proceed to vigilantly defend the Renewable Gas Commonplace and struggle in opposition to the unlawful abuse of small refinery exemptions. As different Federal courts have decided, the RFS doesn’t impose an financial burden on oil refiners as a result of any compliance prices are handed down the provision chain. All refiners—no matter their measurement or location—face equitable RFS obligations, and all of them move by their prices to conform. This lawsuit was by no means actually about purported financial hardship; reasonably, it was a couple of handful of entrenched oil refineries doing every part they will to dodge their authorized obligations to mix renewable fuels and block client entry to lower-cost, lower-carbon choices on the pump.”
