Groups Seek To Sway Outcome Of Multi-Year RFS AS OMB Begins Review

摘要

Renewable fuels producers, oil industry groups and senators are waging competing efforts to try to sway the outcome of EPA's pending multi-year renewable fuel standard (RFS) to their preferred outcome, as the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) begins its review of the rule that will set RFS targets for 2014,2015 and 2016. OMB received the rule for mandatory pre-publication review this week, according to EPA, ahead of a June 1 deadline for issuing the proposal under a settlement agreement with the American Petroleum Institute (API) and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM). The groups said that EPA's repeated delays in issuing annual RFS targets have caused major uncertainty in the fuels market, and sued to secure the deadline.