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Iowa Renewable Fuels leader says EPA’s waiver decision fulfills Biden campaign pledge
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rescinded three waivers that had excused Sinclair Oil refineries in Wyoming from the federal requirement to blend ethanol into gasoline. Iowa Renewable Fuels Association executive director Monte Shaw says the waivers were granted on the last day of the Trump Administration.
“What was most shocking about them, not just the lateness of them and they aren’t justified to begin with, but these refineries are in the 10th circuit court,” Shaw says.
The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit has jurisdiction over six states, including Wyoming. It’s the court that ruled early last year that small refineries only qualified for the exemption from blending ethanol into gasoline if they had applied for extensions of waivers originally granted in 2010. Shaw says the EPA’s decision fits with the law, but just a
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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.
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Biofuels producers, farmers not sold on switch to electric
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The president and auto industry maintain the nation is on the cusp of a gigantic shift to electric vehicles and away from liquid-fueled cars, but biofuels producers and some of their supporters in Congress aren t buying it. They argue that now is the time to increase sales of ethanol and biodiesel, not abandon them.
To help address climate change, President Joe Biden has proposed an infrastructure plan that includes billions of dollars to pay for 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations, electrify public vehicles and enhance the nation s power grid. These moves follow initiatives in California and other states to mandate electric vehicle sales and a goal by General Motors to shift production fully to electric vehicles by 2035.
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