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Renewable Fuels Association v. EPA

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / District of Columbia
Year
2019
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
Renewable Fuels Association v. EPA

About this case

Filing year
2019
Status
EPA filed notice of action on remand.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → District of Columbia
Docket number
19-1220
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Cir.)
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Clean Air Act (US) → Industry Lawsuits (US) → Renewable Fuel Standards (US)
Principal law
United States → Clean Air Act (CAA)United States → Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA)United States → Energy Policy Act of 2005
At issue
Challenge to EPA’s August 2019 decision regarding small refinery exemptions to renewable fuel standard requirements for 2018.
Topics
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Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
Topics 
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04/07/2022
EPA filed notice of action on remand.
EPA notified the court that it had denied all 36 petitions for extensions of the small refinery exemption from the requirements of the Renewable Fuel Standard annual volume obligations for compliance year 2018 that the court had remanded.
Notice
12/08/2021
EPA's motion for voluntary remand without vacatur granted.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) motion for voluntary remand without vacatur of its August 2019 determination granting and denying 36 petitions for extensions of the small refinery exemption from the requirements of the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard annual volume obligations for compliance year 2018. The court ordered EPA to issue new decisions within 120 days. The court stated that vacatur was not warranted “because it would be unduly disruptive and EPA may be able to explain its rationale on remand.”
Decision
02/04/2020
Notice filed by petitioners of mootness of their motion to hold case in abeyance.
Notice
01/30/2020
Motions for leave to intervene granted.
Decision
11/21/2019
Motion for leave to intervene in support of respondent filed by American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers.
Motion To Intervene
11/21/2019
Motion for leave to intervene in support of respondent filed by Small Refiners Coalition.
Motion To Intervene
11/21/2019
Petitioners filed opposition to consolidation with Case Nos. 19-1196 and 19-1216 and reply in support of motion to hold case in abeyance.
Opposition
11/05/2019
Motion filed to hold case in abeyance pending outcome of related litigation in the D.C. Circuit and the Tenth Circuit.
Motion
10/22/2019
Petition for review filed.
Trade groups for producers of ethanol and other biofuels and trade associations for farmers filed a petition for review of EPA’s August 2019 decision regarding small refinery exemptions to renewable fuel standard requirements for 2018.
Petition

Summary

Challenge to EPA’s August 2019 decision regarding small refinery exemptions to renewable fuel standard requirements for 2018.

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Group
Topics
Target
Policy instrument
Risk
Impacted group
Renewable energy
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Adaptation/resilience
Finance