Last week, South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson joined House Ag Committee Chairman Collin Peterson in introducing the Renewable Fuel Standard Integrity Act of 2019. Renewable Fuels Association President Geoff Cooper says that measure requires small refiners who get waivers from the RFS to submit their requests in a timely manner to EPA so the agency could reallocate those waived RFS volumes.

He says the legislation requires that those receiving RFS exemptions are publicly disclosed.

Cooper says there have been several large refiners who have received small refiner waivers from the Renewable Fuel Standard and that was not the intent of Congress when they wrote the RFS into the law.

Cooper says for the last five years, companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Holly Frontier, and CVR have gamed the system and undercut the RFS and Johnson and Peterson’s bill would prevent that.