The EPA is considering ways to help small refineries required to mix biofuels into gasoline as the coronavirus crushes fuel demand, agency chief
- Wheeler said he had personally spoken with a number of small refineries, and “we are working with them to see what we can do to help them during this time”
- Wheeler described a “double hit” to small refineries from a federal court ruling undercutting EPA’s ability to exempt them from biofuel-blending mandates and a “particular hardship” from the “decrease in vehicle miles traveled by Americans”
- “We are looking to see what kind of relief we can provide everyone,” Wheeler said. “The ethanol industry is also hurting as well”
- EPA will consider prior-year applications from refineries whose previous waiver applications were found by a court to have been wrongly denied, Wheeler said
- NOTE: That could include two
Sinclair Refining facilities
- NOTE: That could include two
- EARLIER:
Biofuel Quotas to Get Small Lift Under Draft of EPA Plan
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