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SCOTUS ruling favors oil interests over ethanol, Iowans criticize decision

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

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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