As Gary Blumenthal reported on Friday, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, overruled the 10th District Federal Court of Appeals decision on the EPA’s granting of small refinery exemptions (SREs) to meet the renewable fuel standard (RFS) volumes. Recall that in January 2020, the 10th District Court ruled that EPA went beyond its statutory authority in granting three different small refinery exemptions (SREs) for 2016 and 2017; this decision came regarding a case filed by several producer and biofuels groups in 2018. SREs were automatic through 2013; after that, refineries had to petition for them based on proving that economic harm was caused by the RFS volumes. The Court ruled that none of the three refineries which received...
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