US EPA ‘lowers ambitions’ to chagrin of biofuel producers in final RFS rule for 2023-2025

The US Environmental Protection Agency June 21 finalized regulations to steadily raise the amount of renewable fuel that US refiners must annually mix with gasoline and diesel over the next three years, lowering some blending requirements below its December proposal following comments from stakeholders. The new rule tied to the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard program left the biofuel and farming…