Growth Energy’s Challenge to EPA Standards Tossed by DC Court

Challenges to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2020 renewable fuel standards are dismissed for mootness, the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said Friday.

Growth Energy and Clean Fuels Alliance America’s petitions are dismissed because the legal landscape “materially changed” while their cases were held in abeyance, Judge Bradley N. Garcia said.

The petitioners asked the appeals court to opine on the propriety of a supposed agency policy that’s disconnected from any particular agency action, and when the operative statutory provisions changed mid-litigation, the opinion said.

The dispute concerned the agency’s RFS program, which requires a certain target ...