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In a ruling announced June 25, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered an opinion
in HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v.
Renewable Fuels Association, which overturned by a vote of 6 to 3 the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that in order to qualify for a hardship exemption under the Renewable Fuel Standard, a small refinery must have received uninterrupted, continuous hardship exemptions for every year since 2011.
Although it does allow for refiners to apply to extend RFS exemptions that have lapsed, it does not change the 10th Circuit decision components of the 10th Circuit’s ruling that refiners must still prove economic harm directly related to compliance with the RFS and that EPA cannot use RIN costs as a cause of economic harm while simultaneously admitting RIN costs are recovered in the refiner’s crack spread.`
Iowa Capital Dispatch
A flag flies at the Southeast Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol facility prior to a visit from President Donald Trump on June 11, 2019, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The U.S. Supreme Court has added stress to an already agitated ethanol industry, overturning a 10th Circuit Court decision and voting 6-3 to allow broader biofuels waivers for oil refineries.
Dissenting judges said a waiver that never existed can’t be extended. The case revolved around whether small oil refineries can ask for a waiver if they haven’t qualified and possessed the waiver continuously.
Small Oil Refiners Win Biofuel Case at Supreme Court
The High Court restored small refiners exemptions from federal renewable fuel blending requirements.
June 28, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Supreme Court Friday overturned an appellate court ruling that had curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to exempt struggling small oil refineries from a federal law requiring them to blend increasing amounts of ethanol and other renewable fuels into their products, Reuters reports.
Ruling 6-3 in favor of the refineries in the case,
HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association, the justices rejected a 2020 ruling by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that faulted the EPA for giving refineries in Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming economic hardship extensions on waivers from the Renewable Fuel Standard under the Clean Air Act despite the refineries’ prior exemptions having expired. The biofuel industry groups had challenged the EPA’s flexibility to
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