EPA's RFS Refiner Waivers Couid Make 2020 Fuei Targets 'Meaningless'

摘要

Biofuels industry officials are warning that EPA's ongoing issuance of waivers to small refiners from having to meet renewable fuel standard (RFS) biofuel blending mandates could make the agency's imminent proposed 2020 RFS fuel production targets "meaningless" because the exemptions undermine biofuels production levels. Speaking June 6 at a briefing for Congressional staff in Washington, D.C., Anthony Reed, senior director of government relations for ethanol producer Archer Daniels Midland, said the major impact of the waivers has already made the annual renewable volume obligations (RVO) rules largely irrelevant.