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  1. December 13, 2021

    Climate Change Dominated Energy Court Rulings Of 2021

    Courts in 2021 charted the course of climate tort litigation and weighed in on the scope of the federal government's authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions, as well as issued rulings affecting the ability for pipelines to be built. Here's a recap of significant court decisions affecting the energy industry in the past year.

  2. June 25, 2021

    Justices Back Refiners In Biofuel Exemption Row

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday restored small refiners' exemptions from federal renewable fuel blending requirements, wiping out a Tenth Circuit ruling that eliminated the exemptions.

  3. April 27, 2021

    Justices Question Refiners' Bid For Biofuel Exemption Leeway

    U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared skeptical of small refiners' arguments that they can extend previously expired exemptions from federal biofuel requirements, a position opposed by biofuel producers and the Biden administration.

  4. April 23, 2021

    Trio Of Energy, Enviro Cases Next On High Court's Docket

    Energy and environmental law will be in the U.S. Supreme Court spotlight this week as the justices hear oral arguments in a trio of cases over three consecutive days. Here's a snapshot of each case.

  5. March 25, 2021

    Justices Told Refineries Can't Reclaim Biofuel Exemptions

    Biofuel advocates — and their newly found ally in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm that small refineries can't extend lapsed waivers that granted them a temporary pass from having to blend renewable fuels into their products. 

  6. March 03, 2021

    High Court Told Biofuel Ruling Would Cause Economic Strain

    The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a trade association, told the U.S. Supreme Court that it is essential for small petroleum refineries undergoing economic hardships to be able to gain exemptions from renewable fuel blending requirements and that an appeals court was wrong to restrict vital economic relief.

  7. February 22, 2021

    EPA Backs 10th Circ. Biofuel Ruling Amid High Court Review

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday said the Trump administration wrongly allowed some small petroleum refineries that complained of economic hardship to dodge renewable fuel blending requirements, reversing course and siding with the Tenth Circuit's decision last year to strike down the exemptions.

  8. January 08, 2021

    High Court Takes Up 10th Circ.'s Biofuel Exemptions Ruling

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review the Tenth Circuit's decision to rescind the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's exemptions that temporarily relieved small refineries from having to blend renewable fuels into their products.

  9. December 23, 2020

    10th Circ. Biofuel Ruling Endangers Refiners, Justices Told

    The Tenth Circuit's voiding of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exemptions that relieve small refineries from meeting certain renewable fuel blending obligations will decimate the industry and the agency is wrongly downplaying the decision as a one-off, a pair of refiners told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.

  10. December 10, 2020

    EPA Asks Justices Not To Review 10th Circ. Biofuel Ruling

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that even though the Tenth Circuit sided against the agency's method of handling exemptions that relieve small refineries from certain renewable fuel blending obligations, the U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't bother to take the case.