EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy says the agency’s final rule on volumetric requirements for biofuels this year has been delayed because they want to make sure the rule encourages increased use of biofuels over time. Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Executive Director Monte Shaw says it’s difficult to say what the EPA head means with that statement. He says their time line for releasing the requirements is faulty.
McCarthy says EPA will publish the final rule as soon as the agency can get it right. Shaw says he doesn’t know why EPA is holding to that when it seems every time they release a rule they get taken to court.
Shaw says EPA needs to read the RFS law and stick to the levels that are in the law and then the market will respond. He says if they try to change those or rewrite the law the biofuels industry will take them to court. The volume requirement decision is expected to come out in September.