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Small Refinery Announcement Expected This Week

Published August 31, 2026

Farm and biofuel groups are warning that more small refinery exemptions could cut demand for corn and soybean oil. Reuters reports the Trump administration is considering exemptions covering up to 1.8 billion renewable fuel credits. The American Soybean Association estimates…

FAPRI: A Corn-Soybean Trade-off

Published May 12, 2026

A study by the University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute offers a cautious message about the year-round E15 legislation. Automatic small refinery exemptions are also part of the E15 bill. FAPRI says ethanol demand would boost the…

Ag, Biofuel Groups Praise Court Ruling

Published June 18, 2025

The Supreme Court has determined that the Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals is the only appropriate venue for litigation on the EPA’s small refinery exemptions. This will prevent refineries from ‘shopping’ for more favorable courts to challenge EPA decisions on…

Ethanol Groups Disappointed in Court Ruling

Published July 29, 2024

A federal appeals court vacated most of EPA’s 2022 denials of small refinery exemptions from the Renewable Fuel Standard. The court remanded these petitions to EPA for further action. The Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy and the American Coalition for…

Disappointment Over Small Refinery Waivers

Published November 28, 2023

A coalition of agriculture and ethanol groups is disappointed in the recent EPA decision to reject six small refinery exemption requests. The Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy, American Coalition for Ethanol and the National Farmers Union released a joint statement,…

EPA Denies Small Refinery Exemptions from 2018

Published April 7, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency denied 36 small refinery exemptions from oil refiners. However, EPA offered alternative relief to nearly half of those petitions, allowing them to meet blending obligations without purchasing credits. Biofuel supporters, like Growth Energy, the Renewable Fuels…

One SRE Rejected, More Refinery Petitions Pending

Published November 8, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency has rejected the bid from one oil company for a small refinery exemption. There are 32 petitions still pending for 2019. There are also 28 pending petitions for 2020 and three for 2021. Under the Renewable…

Small Refinery Waivers May Get Another Look

Published September 2, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider the small refinery waivers issued during the Trump Administration. Thirty-one exemptions were approved in 2019. Citing recent court rulings on biofuels, the Biden White House wants these waivers…

Tenth Circuit Court Vacates Three Small Refinery Exemptions

Published May 19, 2021

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated three small refinery exemptions granted by the EPA to Sinclair. Those exemptions were issued the day before President Joe Biden was sworn into office. This court decision follows a petition from the EPA…

EPA Cooperates With GAO Investigation

Published May 6, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency is providing the Government Accountability Office all of the data related to the small refinery waiver petitions dating back to the start of the Renewable Fuels Standard. A bipartisan group of lawmakers requested a GAO investigation…

Articles tagged under: small refinery exemptions

Small Refinery Announcement Expected This Week

FAPRI: A Corn-Soybean Trade-off

Ag, Biofuel Groups Praise Court Ruling

Ethanol Groups Disappointed in Court Ruling

Disappointment Over Small Refinery Waivers

EPA Denies Small Refinery Exemptions from 2018

One SRE Rejected, More Refinery Petitions Pending

Small Refinery Waivers May Get Another Look

Tenth Circuit Court Vacates Three Small Refinery Exemptions

EPA Cooperates With GAO Investigation

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