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A POSSIBILITY FOR BIPARTISANSHIP? Energy Secretary
Jennifer Granholm is touting major spending on carbon capture as key to finding agreement with Republicans on infrastructure.
Granholm, taking questions at a roundtable event yesterday, suggested she was unfazed by
remarks by Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell that Republicans won t go above $600 billion on infrastructure and don t want to revisit the GOP tax cut bill to pay for it.
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5/4/2021 In a legal motion filed in Denver, the EPA asked a federal appeals court to vacate RFS exemptions granted to three small refineries during President Trump’s last day in office. The EPA, now directed by Biden appointees, said the outgoing Trump officials “did not analyze determinative legal questions” whether the refineries qualified for the waivers. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January 2020 that small-volume refineries could be given a “hardship” waiver from complying with the Renewable Fuel Standard only it they received a waiver in the preceding year. The ruling greatly reduced the number of refineries eligible for exemptions. Ethanol makers and farm groups say the market for corn ethanol was reduced by billions of gallons due to a surge in RFS waivers during the Trump years.
-The Hagstrom Report
The Environmental Protection Agency today filed a court motion to vacate three small refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard that the Trump administration issued on Jan. 19, just before President Donald Trump left office.
“EPA is addressing the previous administration’s mishandling of the SRE program, including the midnight-hour grants of three SREs to Sinclair,” said Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor.
“We are hopeful that EPA will continue to rein in the SRE program to achieve its limited purpose and ensure that the RFS advances the biofuels industry today and in the years to come.”
Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments on a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 24, 2020, ruling that struck down three earlier SREs that the court said were improperly issued by the EPA and held that the agency cannot “extend” exemptions to any small refineries whose earlier, temporary exemptions had lapsed, Biomass Magazine reported.
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Renewable Natural Gas Emerging as Serious Decarbonized Gas Contender
Last December, two giant Virginia-headquartered firms energy company Dominion Energy and food manufacturer Smithfield Foods announced completion of a novel renewable natural gas (RNG) facility in Milford, southwestern Utah. While the Milford facility is the first of four similar projects that Align Renewable Natural Gas a joint venture formed in November 2018 between Dominion and Smithfield is spearheading, it is just one of a string of new, notable developments that suggest RNG is quickly gaining ground as the energy transition unfolds.