Regulation and Environment

摘要

The US Renewable Fuel Standard’s inevitable day in court got a preview airing last week, as Corn Belt senators—echoing complaints from their biofuel industry constituents— accused the Obama administration of illegally setting the 2014, 2015 and 2016 volumes below statutory levels. At issue is the vague wording in the law on how the Environmental Protection Agency is allowed to adjust the annual biofuels mandate from the levels set by Congress when it created the RFS in 2007.