EPA on Friday approved 14 full and partial exemption requests sought by small refiners from their biofuel blending requirements.
EPA said it was granting full exemptions to two of those petitions and partial exemptions for 12 others. The 16 total petitions from eight refineries sought exemptions from volume obligations for the 2021 through 2024 compliance years.
The agency denied two requests.
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The Trump administration is still considering how to account for the billions of gallons of biofuels left out of the renewable fuel standard blending requirements after it granted numerous exemptions to small refiners earlier this year.
