July 28, 2017
The D.C. Circuit on Friday vacated part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that set the levels of renewable fuel that must be blended into gasoline below targets called for by Congress, finding the EPA wrongly considered consumer-side constraints in making its decision.
April 24, 2017
Environmental and biofuel industry groups attacked an Environmental Protection Agency rule Monday that they claim slashes renewable fuel requirements far below congressional targets, telling a D.C. Circuit panel that there was "vastly more than enough" renewable fuel supplies to meet those goals.
January 13, 2017
Petroleum industry groups told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that the statutory volumes set for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Renewable Fuel Standard program aren't possible in the "real world," asking the appeals court to back the agency's view of its authority to break with Congress' timetable for incrementally replacing conventional fuels with renewables.
December 16, 2016
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday urged the D.C. Circuit to reject challenges to the latest volume obligations the agency set for the Renewable Fuel Standard program, saying it was within its authority to lower the amounts of some fuels.
September 29, 2016
The American Petroleum Institute said Wednesday a swath of biodiesel industry groups shouldn't be able to chime in on a set of consolidated appeals in the D.C. Circuit challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's volume obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard Program.
September 09, 2016
Renewable fuels groups and petroleum refiners squared off in the D.C. Circuit on Thursday, filing opening briefs in a set of consolidated appeals challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's volume obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard Program.
February 10, 2016
The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers on Wednesday asked U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule setting renewable fuel standards, which the group's president said violates the Clean Air Act.
February 08, 2016
DuPont asked the D.C. Circuit Friday to allow it to intervene in a suit challenging a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule reducing statutory volumes of renewable fuel, arguing that the agency's decision puts its massive investment in a cellulosic ethanol facility at risk.
January 11, 2016
Biofuel and ethanol industry groups on Friday asked the D.C. Circuit to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recent rule increasing the volume of renewable fuel available in the country, a move the groups criticized for not going far enough.