EPA Administrator: RFS Waiver Requests to Wait on Court Appeal
by John Herath (Farm Journal’s Ag Pro) Wheeler (EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler) said on the AgriTalk Radio Show on Monday that he will not consider those waiver requests until after the courts have spoken on that appeal.
“The refiners appealed that to the Supreme Court; we’re waiting to see if they take it up, and what they do with that,” Wheeler said. ”What I don’t want to be in a position of doing is making a decision one way or the other and then have the court instruct me to reverse it, because it’s much worse to reverse a decision afterwards than it is to just wait for the court to decide. So, I think it would be inappropriate for me to either grant or deny them until that litigation has completely run its course.”
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EPA is also considering an additional 17 so-called “gap year” waiver requests, an attempt to get around the Tenth Circuit decision by filling in the years between the initial waiver requests and the current waiver applications. Wheeler said those applications cannot be ruled on by EPA until the Department of Energy completes its review of the requests. EPA earlier this year denied 54 gap year waiver requests and is widely expected to do the same with the remaining 17. READ MORE
Darryl Custer: Time for EPA to stop playing games with the heartland (The Cap Times)
Wheeler waiting on courts before making RFS decisions (NAFB News Service)
Marc Berger: We need biofuels action, not more promises (The Cap Times)
