NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has rejected so far one petition from an oil refiner to be exempted from the nation’s biofuel blending laws for the 2019 compliance year, EPA’s website showed on Friday.
The move comes at a time when the oil and biofuel industries await indication from the Biden administration on how it will approach blending requirements under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard. Though the EPA, which administers the RFS, rejected the one petition from 2019, it still has to decide on 32 pending petitions for that year.
(Reporting by Stephanie Kelly)
