Loose Change: Midwest senators urge EPA to reject ‘gap’ RFS waivers

A bipartisan group of 18 senators is urging EPA to reject a slew of refining sector requests for “gap year” compliance waivers for the renewable fuel standard (RFS), an attempt to allow continued issuance of future waivers for small refiners under a key appeals court ruling. “Granting these petitions would worsen the unprecedented economic challenges facing the biofuels industry and the rural communities that it supports while violating EPA’s own policy on this issue,” the senators write in a June...