The American Coalition for Ethanol has written to the Environmental Protection Agency urging them to address a shortcoming in the Agency’s implementation of the Renewable Fuel Standard. ACE CEO Brian Jennings says the 11.56 percent RVO the EPA set in December of 2019 won’t meet the RFS volumes needed to be met at 20 billion gallons this year.
He says the COVID 19 pandemic has led to reduce usage of gasoline leading to less ethanol being blended. Jennings says if the EPA fails to adjust the RFS volumes they’ll be violating the law.
Jennings say despite economic and health circumstances, the RFS levels must be met and it’s up to the EPA to get that done.
Jennings says the EPA needs to use existing statutory authority to issue an interim final rule by July 1 to increase the RVO for 2020 to meet the RFS obligations. He says they also should restore the 500 million gallons of remanded volume as ordered by the D.C. Circuit Court and deny most of the 25 SRE waivers pending.
