The Environmental Protection Agency defended its latest standards for renewable fuel from various attacks by both environmental and industry groups.
“EPA appropriately set the specific volumes of cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel,” the agency told the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on June 28.
The Renewable Fuel Standard programunder the Clean Air Act requires a certain volume of renewable fuel be refined or imported to replace or reduce the amount of fossil fuel in transportation fuel, home heating oil, or jet fuel.
The EPA sets the annual, nationally applicable volume targets ...
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