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.`
6/28/2021
By Stephanie Kelly
NEW YORK, June 28 (Reuters) - U.S. biofuel and corn industry
groups said on Monday they are urging the Environmental
Protection Agency to use restraint in its use of waivers
exempting refiners from their biofuel blending obligations after
the Supreme Court last week upheld the controversial program.
The pressure comes as the refining industry and its
representatives push hard for the opposite, asking that the
administration of President Joe Biden ease the industry s
compliance costs under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard to help
it recover from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
The conflicting demands reflect a perennial truth about the
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