by Kellan Heavican (Brownfield Ag News) The clock on the Renewable Fuel Standard won’t run out at the end of 2022 when it resets, but industry leaders wonder how the Environmental Protection Agency will set volume requirements for 2023.
Renewable Fuels Association CEO Geoff Cooper calls the RFS “an absolute winner.” “We shouldn’t expect to see anything less than what we see in 2022 when we talk about 2023 and beyond in terms of volumes,” he said.
At the 16
th annual Ethanol: Emerging Issues Forum, Cooper, said the EPA is looking at getting rid of the yearly RVO process. “That they’d like to look at maybe a multi-year rule making where they’re setting standards several years at a time,” Cooper says. “I think we could get behind that depending on how they do it. I think all of us get sort of weary of the annual grind on these RVO rules.”