by Erin Voegele (Ethanol Producer Magazine) The U.S. EPA is scheduled to publish a proposed rule in the Federal Register on Jan. 15 extending certain Renewable Fuel Standard deadlines for compliance years 2019 and 2020. A public comment period is open through March 11 and a virtual public hearing is scheduled for Feb. 9.
In the proposed rule, the EPA proposes to extend the RFS compliance deadline for the 2019 compliance year and the associated deadline for submission of attest engagement reports for the 2019 compliance year for small refineries. The new deadlines would be set for Nov. 30, 2021 and June 1, 2022, respectively.
In the proposed rule, the EPA explains its proposal to extend the 2019 compliance deadline for small refineries is due to uncertainty surrounding small refinery exemptions (SREs) under the RFS program. The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 8 announced it would review a January 2020 decision handed down by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals that invalidated three SR
Thousands of police and soldiers – people professionally trained in the use of violence and familiar with military protocols – are part of an extremist effort to undermine the U.S. government and subvert the democratic process.
According to an investigative report published in the Atlantic in November into a leaked database kept by the Oath Keepers – one of several far-right and white supremacist militias that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 – 10% of Oath Keepers are current police officers or military members. Another significant portion of the group’s membership is retired military and law enforcement personnel.
The hate group – founded by a former Army paratrooper after Barack Obama’s 2008 election – claimed “an improbable 30,000 members who were said to be mostly current and former military, law enforcement and emergency first responders” in 2016, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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A sign warns away trespassers at the Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute on July 25, 2019, in Terre Haute, Indiana. (Photo: AFP)
The US Supreme Court on Jan. 14 cleared the path for the federal government to execute Corey Johnson after denying his two last-minute appeals.
The nation s high court denied Johnson s appeal for a postponement of his execution since he was suffering from COVID-19 and his appeal to seek a reduced sentence based on his intellectual ability under a 2018 prison-reform law.
Thousands of National Guard troops have arrived in D.C. amid growing security concerns around President-elect Biden's inauguration after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.