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Court Rejects Sinclair Small Refinery Exemptions

05/28/2021

On May 19th the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit vacated three Small Refinery exemptions granted to the Sinclair Wyoming Refining Company. Geoff Cooper, President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, stated “we are pleased that the Court has vacated these improperly-granted waivers and is sending them back to EPA for reconsideration.” He added, “if these exemptions had been allowed to stand, they would have erased RFS blending requirements for 260 million gallons of low-carbon renewable fuels.”

In the order released by the court it was evident that the EPA did not analyze determinative legal questions regarding whether the Petitioner was qualified to receive extensions of the Small Refinery Exemption. The three exemptions were granted in the declining hours of the previous Administration and allowed the three Wyoming refineries to be exempt from Renewable Fuel Standard obligations during 2018 and 2019.


 
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