EPA Finalizes Fuels ‘Streamlining’ Regulation, Citing Benefits To Industry

EPA has finalized its years-long effort to “streamline” its extensive suite of regulations governing fuel quality, claiming major benefits to industry from what the agency says will be a lighter regulatory burden even though it insists that the revised collection of fuels rules will not relax environmental standards. Announcing the sweeping new rule Oct. 15 at Monroe Energy LLC’s Trainer refinery in Philadelphia, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said, “By finalizing this action today, we’ll start 2021 with a set of...