- Climate Litigation Database
- /
- Search
- /
- Alon Refining Krotz Springs, Inc. v. EPA
Collection
Alon Refining Krotz Springs, Inc. v. EPA
Alon Refining Krotz Springs, Inc. v. EPA ↗
16-1052 et al.D.C. Cir.1 entry
Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
08/30/2019
Decision
Petitions for review denied.
The D.C. Circuit rejected a set of challenges to Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program rules. First, the court upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) denial of petitions to reconsider its 2010 “point of obligation” rule that imposed RFS compliance obligations on refiners and importers but not on blenders. Second, the court upheld EPA’s decision not to reassess categories of “obligated parties” when it issued the 2017 annual standards. Third, the court rejected challenges to EPA’s cellulosic biofuel projection for 2017 and the decision not to use the entirety of the discretionary cellulosic waiver to lower the 2017 requirements for advanced biofuel and total renewable fuel. Fourth, the court rejected a claim that the 2018 volume for biomass-based diesel was too low.
Valero Energy Corp. v. EPA ↗
19-835U.S.4 entries
Filing Date
Type
Action Taken
Document
Summary
05/18/2020
Decision
Certiorari denied.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the D.C. Circuit’s decisions in three cases that concerned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) annual determination of obligations in the Renewable Fuel Standard program. American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers and Valero Energy Corporation had sought the Court’s review of the issue of whether EPA was required to consider the appropriate “point of obligation”—the parties to whom the obligations should apply (refineries, blenders, or importers)—on an annual basis.
12/30/2019
Petition For Writ Of Certiorari
Petition for writ of certiorari filed by Valero Energy Corporation and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers.
–