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RFA: EPA renewable fuels volumes “fall short”
The EPA has released its proposed 2017 biofuels volume requirements and the Renewable Fuels Association says they fall short for ethanol.
“They set the conventional number at 14.8, so they’re within 200-million gallons! Now, there’s just no reason for them to not have gotten to the statutory level,” RFA CEO Bob Dinneen tells Brownfield the EPA, this time, did two things right, “They got the rule out, or the proposal out in a timely fashion. And, two, they’re moving in the right direction. They have increased the volumes that will be required.”
Dinneen says the RFA has demonstrated to the White House and EPA that the market is there for renewable fuels, “I remain dismayed, frustrated, that the agency can’t seem to get this right.” Dineen says the draft rule falls short of congressional intent and is – in his words – an “illegal interpretation of waiver authority.”
The EPA will hold a public hearing on the draft RFS renewable volume obligations on June 9th in Kansas City, Missouri.
AUDIO: Interview with Bob Dinneen:
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