The Environmental Protection Agency finalized its extension of compliance deadlines for renewable volume obligations or ‘RVOs’ for 2019 through 2022, drawing swift fire from biofuel groups. The EPA says the deadline extension is needed due to the agency’s delay in issuing RFS volume obligations and the domino impact that had down the line on compliance decisions.

Renewable Fuels Association chief Geoff Cooper says they were still disappointed.

Cooper argues that EPA just gave itself unilateral power to delay yearly RFS blending requirements set by Congress whenever it feels like it.

And it won’t help the marketplace prepare for compliance, long-term.    

Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor says delaying compliance deadlines completely contradicts efforts to lower gas prices and use more of the cleaner, lower-carbon fuels.