In Washington, Growth Energy filed an amicus brief this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in The San Antonio Refinery, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The case pertains to a group of refineries seeking to avoid complying with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires oil refiners to blend a specific amount of biofuels into their fuel each year.
The petitioning refineries allege that the EPA’s “Alternative RIN Retirement Schedule for Small Refineries”—an adjustment made to allow refineries to meet their RFS obligations over an extended period of time—did not go far enough and should have allowed the refineries not to comply with the RFS at all.
Growth Energy’s amicus brief reiterates the fact that the oil industry continues to look for ways to avoid complying with the RFS. Across a range of cases, the industry has argued that EPA should not be allowed to enforce the RFS because the industry simply doesn’t want to comply, even with relaxed obligations.
