EPA has been getting static from Bio fuels interest on the Illegal WAIVERS of 2.25 Billion Gallons to the Renewable Fuels Standard.. which started under the Obama Administration but juiced up while Scott Pruitt was administrator of the EPA.
These 2.25 Billion gallons have been Illegally Waived from the Renewable Fuels Standard but NOT REISSUED as is the LAW!!
The Waivers have been an end RUN AROUND the LAW!!
We SHOULD GET THESE Waived Gallons RE ISSUED so that the Statute of the RFS may be fufilled
CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN and tell them you want this DONE!!
( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biofuels-waivers-exclusive/exclusive-epa-refinery-biofuel-waiver-program-on-hold-pending-review-sources-idUSKCN1NX1D9 )
Exclusive: EPA Refinery Biofuel Waiver Program on Hold Pending Review-Sources
By Reuters
Nov. 28, 2018
NEW YORK — The Trump Administration has temporarily frozen a program meant to exempt small oil refineries in financial distress from the U.S. biofuels law, as it reviews the scoring system to evaluate applications, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
The review means changes are likely to the program, which has become a lightning rod of controversy between the rival oil and corn industries since the Environmental Protection Agency vastly increased the number of waivers for last year.
Under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard, oil refiners must increasingly blend biofuels like corn-based ethanol into their fuel each year or purchase blending credits from those that do. The regulation was passed in 2005 to help farmers and cut fuel imports.
But small oil refineries can be exempted from the standard if they prove that compliance would cause disproportionate hardship. The EPA granted 29 such waivers for the 2017 compliance year, up from 14 in 2015 and 20 in 2016.
EPA to review the missing "waived" biofuels granted under the Small Refinery Exemptions
