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Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company LLC, et al v. EPA

  1. September 10, 2024

    Biofuel Group Wants Renewable Fuel Redo At DC Circ.

    Growth Energy said a D.C. Circuit panel erred when it said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should have exempted small petroleum refiners from renewable fuel blending requirements and held the biofuel trade group didn't have standing to challenge alternative compliance actions the agency later enacted.

  2. August 15, 2024

    DC Circ. Explains Toss Of EPA's Biofuel Exemptions Denial

    The Environmental Protection Agency's narrow interpretation of what defines an economic hardship wrongly shut dozens of small oil refineries out of receiving federal renewable fuel blending requirement exemptions, according to a per curiam D.C. Circuit opinion unsealed this week.

  3. July 26, 2024

    DC Circ. Vacates EPA's Biofuel Exemptions Denial

    The D.C. Circuit on Friday largely sided with dozens of small petroleum refiners challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's denial of their exemptions to federal renewable fuel blending requirements while keeping its reasoning for doing so under seal.

  4. April 16, 2024

    DC Circ. Grills EPA On Nixing Refiners' Biofuel Exemptions

    A D.C. Circuit panel seemed open Tuesday to petroleum refiners' challenge to federal regulators' denial of their exemptions to federal renewable fuel requirements, as the judges grilled attorneys for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on how federal regulators gauge refineries' compliance costs.

  5. January 01, 2024

    Biggest Environmental Cases To Watch In 2024

    Game-changing environmental law decisions are on tap for 2024, from two U.S. Supreme Court cases that could make important changes to the practice of administrative law to more rulings on the extent of the federal government's jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.

  6. November 03, 2023

    EPA Justifies Renewable Fuel Standards At DC Circ.

    At least one member of the D.C. Circuit didn't seem convinced Friday morning that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had adequately explained itself when it changed aspects of its latest renewable fuel standards, which are now being challenged by biofuel producers and refiners.

  7. November 02, 2023

    Biofuel Cos. Say EPA Was Right To Nix Refiner Exemptions

    Biofuel producers threw their support behind the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to revoke small oil refineries' exemptions from renewable fuel blending requirements, telling the D.C. Circuit the agency's revised approach to evaluating such requests is reasonable and its decisions were sound on the record.

  8. June 16, 2023

    EPA 'Mangled' Law To Erase Biofuel Exemption, Refiners Say

    Dozens of small oil refineries fired a broadside at U.S. environmental regulators in the D.C. Circuit, accusing the government of illegally maneuvering to eliminate exemptions from renewable fuel standards and pushing rural employers to the brink of financial collapse.

  9. March 31, 2023

    Refiners, Biofuels Take On EPA Renewable Fuel Regs

    Petroleum refiners and biofuel interests lashed out against recent federal renewable fuel requirements in the D.C. Circuit, claiming environmental regulators forced onerous requirements on producers and unlawfully lowballed the amount of next-generation biofuels available to meet last year's standards.

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