AG Miller comments on Supreme Court arguments in biofuels case
DES MOINES Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court arguments in
HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining, LLC v. Renewable Fuels Association. Miller filed an amicus brief March 31 supporting several renewable fuels and agricultural associations in their challenge to the EPA’s award of small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard. Today’s U.S. Supreme Court arguments were critical to Iowa’s renewable fuel industry and the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard. The arguments were very interesting, and the justices came prepared on a highly complex topic. We think we have the stronger argument: that Congress intended to advance renewable fuels, and not freely grant exemptions to small refineries. The plain, common sense meaning of the statute language prevails, in our opinion.
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case about exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on how to interpret federal law requiring renewable fuels to be blended into the nation’s transportation fuel supply.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency runs the Renewable Fuel Standard Program, which was created by Congress in 2005 and expanded in 2007. The RFS maintains that renewable fuels must be blended into transportation fuel. The volume of renewable fuels that is required to be blended into gasoline increases annually.
At the start of the program, all small oil refineries had blanket exemptions from blending requirements. They could apply to extend an exemption and get one if they could prove financial struggles would result from complying with the RFS. The RFS considers any refinery that produces 75,000 or fewer barrels of crude oil per day to be a small refinery.
Oral arguments given in high court’s consideration of small refinery exemptions for renewable fuels standard.
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday from the biofuel industry, EPA, and refiners on small refinery exemptions under the Renewable Fuel Standard. The refiners have challenged last year’s 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that EPA may only extend exemptions for the few refineries that consistently held them.
The four organizations comprising the Biofuels Coalition the Renewable Fuels Association, the National Corn Growers Association, National Farmers Union, and the American Coalition for Ethanol shared time during Tuesday’s oral arguments with the U.S. Department of Justice, which represented the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA announced in February that it supports the Tenth Circuit’s decision.