Marathon Petroleum Corporation this week requested a Renewable Fuel Standard hardship waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency. Advanced Biofuels Business Council Executive Director Brooke Coleman says it’s absurd for one of the nation’s largest refiner to ask for such a waiver. He says if that’s approved then the EPA Administrator is going against the President’s commitment to rural America.
He says if the EPA head keeps granting hardship waivers to the many refiners who have requested them, then the President’s commitment to year-round use of E15 will be rendered useless.
Coleman says it’s ridiculous for the EPA administrator to claim he’s following the intent of the RFS and the President’s commitment to it while at the same time granting those waivers.
Coleman says the RFS renewable fuel obligation rule for 2019 is expected out soon but if the waivers keep getting granted, then the numbers called for in that rule don’t mean anything because refiners aren’t held accountable to them.
