Grassley Weighs in on SCOTUS Biofuels Waiver Ruling, as Biofuels Coalition Urges Biden EPA to Observe Waiver Hardship Standard newsdakota.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsdakota.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
RFA, National Corn Growers, National Farmers Union, and the American Coalition for Ethanol won the lower court ruling against the retroactive waivers that they claim cost the industry more than four billion gallons in lost demand. The groups argued EPA lacks the authority to grant retroactive waivers in non-consecutive years, and the oil refiners suffered no economic harm since they simply passed along the biofuel costs to customers.
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USDA USDA will be allowed to use CCC funds offering assistance to the struggling ethanol industry in post-pandemic environment.
Just days ahead of the vote on the coronavirus aid package in Congress, President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association Geoff Cooper feared the time for individual, targeted aid for the ethanol industry had passed for an industry grappling with losses near $4 billion for 2020. However, the ethanol industry received an early Christmas present with language that at least opened the door for allocated funds to be used to support the biofuels sector as well as important tax provisions extended.
The COVID-19 emergency relief aid package provides $13 billion in agricultural assistance and programs and specifies that the funding boost to the Commodity Credit Corporation may be used to “make payments to producers of advanced biofuel, biomass-based diesel, cellulosic biofuel, conventional biofuel, or renewable fuel…produced in t