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Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Practical steps to mitigate RIN market fraud risk in light of EPA's Inspector General RFS audit report

On September 19, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued its conclusions after conducting an audit of EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Moderated Transaction System (EMTS)...more

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EPA Proposes eRIN Rules

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), which administers the federal renewable fuels program known as the Renewable Fuel Standards (“RFS”), has long considered the potential impact of electric vehicles on the RFS....more

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Renewable Fuel Standard Program/Proposed Standards for 2023-2025: Energy Marketers of America Submits Comments to U.S....

The Energy Marketers of America (“EMA”) submitted February 10th comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) addressing the proposed: See Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0427....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Inflation Reduction Act Gives a Boost to the Biogas Sector

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​​​​​​​The $369 billion Inflation Reduction Act (the “Act”) enacted in August 2022 expanded and extended numerous tax credits and incentive programs for development of clean energy projects. The biogas industry is one sector...more

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EPA Issues Broad Updates to Renewable Fuel Standards Program: 5 Things to Know

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The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has recently finalized volumes for compliance years 2020, 2021, and 2022 under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”)’s renewable fuel standard (“RFS”) program and took several other related...more

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Renewable Fuel Standard Update: Recent EPA Activity Drives RIN Value

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On December 7, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its proposed 2020, 2021, and 2022 Renewable Volume Obligations (“RVOs”). RVOs determine the amount of renewable fuel (typically, ethanol) certain...more

Opportune LLP

Battle Of The Biofuels: Renewable Diesel Vs. Biodiesel

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Find out why knowing the difference between renewable diesel and biodiesel can go a long way in understanding the benefits of each....more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Not Dead (Yet?): After HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, The Renewable Fuels Standard’s...

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In its June 25, 2021 decision in HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, the Supreme Court rejected the central holding of a January 2020 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Supreme Court Upholds EPA's Extension of Renewable Fuel Program Extensions

On June 25, 2021, the Supreme Court decided HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, et al., Slip Op. 20-472 (June 25, 2021), which concerned small refiners’ eligibility for hardship exemptions...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association

On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, No. 20-472, holding that a small refinery can apply for a hardship exemption from the Environmental...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Big Win For Small Refineries

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On June 25, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with small oil refineries by making it easier for the companies to win exemptions from the existing mandate that they mix ethanol and other renewable fuels into gasoline and...more

King & Spalding

EPA’s 2020 Renewable Fuel Standard Adopts New Methodologies That Diverge from Prior Interpretations

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On December 19, 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued its final rule for renewable fuel volume requirements for 2020 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (“RFS”) program. The rule establishes the amount of...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA IG Asked To Investigate Exemptions From RFS

On August 21, 2019, Iowa Democratic Representative Cindy Axne asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Inspector General (IG) to investigate how EPA decided to grant the exemptions from the Renewable Fuel...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

National Chicken Council Submits Letter To EPA On The E15 Rule

On April 29, 2019, the National Chicken Council submitted a letter to EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality outlining the potentially negative impact of the changes to the biofuels policy on the poultry industry. In...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Currents - Energy Industry Insights - September 2017

Groundbreaking Held for New Methanol Plant in Kanawha County, West Virginia - "US Methanol expects it will open its first American facility, Liberty One, in mid-2018, which will be capable of producing 200,000 metric tons...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Biofuel Mandates Escape Current EPA Scrutiny

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The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is a regulatory program administered by EPA that requires petroleum-based transportation fuel sold in the U.S. to contain a minimum volume of various categories of biofuels. The program’s...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Initial Wave of Environmental, Energy Changes Under the Trump Administration

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In the initial week of the Trump Administration, a lot has happened and more changes are planned. Here are the highlights from Week One: Confirmation Hearings - Confirmation hearings were conducted for Scott Pruitt...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

American Petroleum Institute On The Future Of American Energy And The RFS

On January 5, 2016, the American Petroleum Institute (API) released its annual State of American Energy 2016 report while emphasizing a need to either amend or repeal EPA’s RFS and a need to promote energy infrastructure...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Ethanol Mandates under RFS and EPA’s Lifecycle GHG Analysis

In a settlement with the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) and the American Petroleum Institute (API), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agreed to set renewable fuel obligations for calendar...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

RFA Asks EPA To Allow Higher Ethanol Blends In Midwest Region After Refinery Outage Leads To High Prices At The Pump

On August 14, 2015, the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) asked EPA to waive Reid Vapor Pressure requirements for E15 and to also allow E12 blending. Reid Vapor Pressure is a measure of gasoline's volatility and is regulated...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Methodology For Small Refinery Exemption Upheld

On June 2, 2015, federal appellate judges decided that EPA's methodology for evaluating small refineries (those with crude oil throughput averaging 75,000 barrels or less per day) for exemptions from the RFS program was fair....more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Delays 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard

On November 21, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that a final Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for 2014 will not be issued by the end of the year. The compliance deadline for the 2013 RFS will be...more

Burr & Forman

Current Ethanol Blending Mandate Generates Interesting Opponents and Forces Delay

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An increasingly pitched battle between business and agricultural interests over the blending of ethanol in gasoline has turned its focus to EPA’s rulemaking mandate which sets the minimum volume of renewable fuel sold...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

ML Strategies’ Energy & Environment Update: June 2014 #2

With most of the energy sector’s attention focused this month on what the Environmental Protection Agency is doing with its proposed 111(d) rule regulating carbon emissions, less was said about what the agency did not do:...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Proposed EPA Rules to Help Smaller RIN Sellers

On February 21st, EPA proposed new rules under the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS) intended to improve market conditions for Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs). The RFS allows producers and importers of renewable...more

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