US EPA commits to meet Nov. 30 deadline to sign proposal setting new biofuel mandates

The US Environmental Protection Agency said that it would meet a court-ordered Nov. 30 deadline to sign a proposed rule laying out the amount of renewable fuel that US refiners must annually mix with gasoline and diesel. The rulemaking will mark the first Renewable Fuel Standard proposal for which there are no congressional recommendations on the books. The so-called RFS…