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Tag: RFS

RFS tells USDA climate-smart agriculture is a unique opportunity to decarbonize biofuels

RFS tells USDA climate-smart agriculture is a unique opportunity to decarbonize biofuels

October 1, 2024 |

In Washington, testimony at a USDA public consultation on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and biofuel feedstocks, RFA President and CEO Geoff Cooper endorsed the “extraordinary opportunity” for CSA to help decarbonize renewable fuels and urged federal agencies, including the Treasury Department, to embrace book-and-claim supply chain management approaches. “If 45Z and other regulations require that physical commodities […]

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Senators call on EPA administrator to boost biobased diesel and advanced biofuels in RFS

Senators call on EPA administrator to boost biobased diesel and advanced biofuels in RFS

June 19, 2024 |

In Washington, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) joined her colleagues in calling on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan to raise Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volumes for biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuels to levels that are consistent with production and availability. Last year, before the EPA implemented the finalized blending volumes for 2023 through […]

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The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioeconomy Policy, the ABFA perspective

The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Bioeconomy Policy, the ABFA perspective

June 8, 2024 |

In this presentation by Advanced Biofuels Association president Mike McAdams, we learn about matching policy with real-world reality using the basic tool box of tax credits, grants, loans, mandates and the RFS. We see policy issues such as “numbers don’t reflect reality,” available feedstocks are threatened, and there is over reliance in policy on technologies […]

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DIC Circuit Court upholds 2020-2022 RFS following oil industry challenges

DIC Circuit Court upholds 2020-2022 RFS following oil industry challenges

May 15, 2024 |

In Washington, Renewable Fuels Association welcomed a decision from the D.C. Circuit Court that upholds EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standards for 2020-2022 and rejects the oil refining industry’s challenges to the rule. The Court found that EPA exercised its discretion appropriately in setting RFS standards for those years, including a supplemental volume requirement to comply with a […]

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Colonial Oil to pay $2.8M fine and retired $12.2M in RINs for defying RFS

Colonial Oil to pay $2.8M fine and retired $12.2M in RINs for defying RFS

April 11, 2024 |

In Georgia, the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reached a settlement with Colonial Oil Industries Inc. that will require the company to pay a civil penalty of more than $2.8 million and spend an estimated $12.2 million to offset the detrimental human health and environmental impacts of Colonial’s alleged failure to meet […]

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S&P delves into the Cellulosic Waiver Credit anomaly

S&P delves into the Cellulosic Waiver Credit anomaly

December 3, 2023 |

In Texas, the team at S&P posted an interesting analysis on the Cellulosic Waiver Credit and D3 RINs, noting that “Due to an anomaly in the Renewable Fuel Standard, CWCs may be purchased for the 2022 compliance year, but not for 2023” and that “unless the EPA attempts to reduce the 2023 cellulosic biofuel RVOs […]

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