Supreme Court justices signaled skepticism of assertions from small oil refineries that they should be allowed to extend lapsed waivers from mandates they use for biofuels.
U.S. imports of biomass-based diesel increase 12 pct in 2020: EIA
Xinhua
05 May 2021, 08:55 GMT+10
HOUSTON, May 4 (Xinhua) U.S. imports of biomass-based diesel grew 12 percent in 2020 due to the growing demand to meet government programs, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Tuesday. According to EIA s figure, the imports of biomass-based diesel, which includes both biodiesel and renewable diesel, reached more than 31,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2020. This was the second consecutive year that the U.S. imports of biomass-based diesel increased. EIA found that nearly 60 percent of the U.S. biomass-based diesel imports in 2020 was renewable diesel, which had come exclusively from Singapore since 2015. EIA said that U.S. imports of renewable diesel increased to a record-high level of more than 18,000 b/d in 2020.
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) EPA asked a federal court Friday to vacate three small-refinery exemptions (SRE) the outgoing Trump administration granted on Jan. 19, just days before the Biden administration was to take office.
In a motion filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver, the agency said it did not follow proper procedure when on Jan. 19 it granted the exemptions to Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company and Sinclair Casper Refining Company from their 2018 and 2019 obligations in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
In particular, the agency said its action, https://www.dtnpf.com/…, did not take into account case law established by the 10th Circuit in January 2020. The court ruled the EPA illegally granted exemptions to three refiners in 2017 and 2018 although they did not qualify.