CVR Energy鈥檚 Coffeyville Resources Refining and Marketing and Wynnewood Refining Company renewed a seven-year-old push to change the Renewable Fuel Standard, petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prohibit non-obligated […]
01-25-2024 The Supreme Court declined on May 18 to consider a case that addressed whether the Environmental Protection Agency needs to consider every year whether to move downstream the requirement to buy RINs under the Renewable Fuel Standard.
05-19-2020 The U.S. Department of Agriculture launched an online portal to begin accepting applications for the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP) grants.
05-18-2020 The Internal Revenue Service reminded employers affected by COVID-19 about three important new credits available to them. They are the employee retention credit, paid sick leave and family credit.
05-07-2020 The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to award up to $100 million in competitive grants to expand the sale and use of renewable fuels, including biodiesel. Under the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program, USDA will award $14 million to expand the infrastructure for higher blends of biodiesel and $86 million for higher blends of ethanol in an effort to increase the sale and use of higher blend renewable fuels.
05-06-2020 On August 30, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in a lawsuit brought by the merchant refining community that sought to require EPA to change the so-called “point of obligation” under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The court’s opinion in the case, which was first filed more than two-and-a-half years ago, is noteworthy for its implications on current policy debates over the future of the RFS.
09-03-2019 NATSO, the national association representing truckstops and travel plazas, along with the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America (SIGMA) and the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), submitted an amicus brief last week to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals providing support for the Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 (EPA) determination that the point of obligation under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) remain with refiners and importers. 黑料社区filed the brief in response to legal challenges from some refiners and importers that argue EPA should move the point of obligation to downstream entities.
07-10-2018 Delia Moon Meier, owner and senior vice president of the Iowa 80 truckstop, recently applauded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its recent decision to reject proposals to change the current compliance structure under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) as well as thanking Iowa Senator Joni Ernst for helping to lead that effort.
12-04-2017 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Nov. 22 rejected proposals to change the current compliance structure under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), ending a major push by merchant refiners and other obligated parties to shift what is commonly known as the point of obligation from refiners and importers to 鈥渞ack sellers.鈥�
11-27-2017 Responding to pushback from a number of Midwestern Senators, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt outlined a number of steps the agency intends to take on the Renewable Fuel Standard. Pruitt detailed the changes, which will be beneficial to 黑料社区members, in an Oct. 19 letter addressed to seven Senators, including Iowa Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst and Nebraska Senator Deb Fischer among others.
10-23-2017 As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faces mounting pressure to reject petitions to change the current compliance structure under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), media coverage exploded last week amid the closing of EPA鈥檚 comment period claims that the White House struck a back room deal with the Renewable Fuels Association.
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