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Growth Energy continues to fight demand destruction
Growth Energy and other biofuel industry leaders have filed an opening brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging the EPA’s failure to properly establish 2020 biofuel blending targets.
CEO Emily Skor says they want to ensure that Renewable Volume Obligations account for gallons lost to small refinery exemptions.
“The 2020 blending targets appropriately identify what exemptions might be granted moving forward, but there is still 4 billion gallons worth of demand that we lost as a result of the exemptions and we want to see those restored,” she says.
She says there is a lot of litigation underway with respect to the blending targets.
“Unfortunately it’s a tool that we have to use to make sure the RFS, at the end of the day, is administered in a way that encourages greater use of biofuels every year which is precisely what Congress intended,” she says.
Skor says she is hopeful the new administration will act quickly and “keep up with statutory timetables.”
“There is going to be some opportunity for this administration in the first 100 days to demonstrate that it really is a sincere partner for rural America and a lot of that is going to be how they handle some of the RFS-pending issues,” she says.
Skor says the RVOs help give the marketplace the certainty and stability needed to invest and grow.
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