30 Oct EPA Opens Comment Period on Supplemental Notice of Rulemaking Concerning SREs
On October 15, 2019, EPA issued a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking on cellulosic biofuel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel volumes for 2020 and the biomass-based diesel volume for 2021. The supplemental notice proposes adjustments to the way annual renewable fuel percentages are calculated. Specifically, the EPA is projecting the volume of gasoline and diesel that will be exempt in 2020 due to small refinery exemptions (SREs) based on a three-year average of the number of the exemptions recommended by the Department of Energy (DOE). The agency proposes to use this...