Monroe Energy, LLC v. EPA

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a joint motion for voluntary dismissal of a challenge to the 2013 cellulosic biofuel standard. (The challenge to the cellulosic standard previously had been severed from the <a href="https://climatecasechart.com/case/monroe-energy-llc-v-epa/">challenge</a> to the rest of the 2013 renewable fuel standard (RFS); the D.C. Circuit <a href="https://climatecasechart.com/case/monroe-energy-llc-v-epa/">upheld</a> the rest of the 2013 RFS in May 2014.) EPA finalized its response to a request for administrative reconsideration of the cellulosic biofuel standard in May 2014 when it issued a <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-05-02/pdf/2014-10135.pdf">direct final rule</a> in which it based the 2013 standard on actual 2013 production and provided for a refund of excess waiver credits obtained by obligated parties.