American Biogas Council Denounces EPA`s Latest RFS Rule
Washington, -- October 18, 2019 - WASHINGTON On Tuesday, October 15, !he Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule that corn'adicted a promise to reallocate waived gallons f'on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and instead released a new proposal to adjust how it sets refinery targets, representing a significant setback to the renewable fuels industry. The reallocation ol waived gallons would have provided a needed, although delayed, correclion back to eslablished market values for the credits thai biogas and other renewable fuel produce's can sell under the RFS.
The Trumo Administration's issuance of exemptions to oil refineries is more than any previous administration by a factor of 5-10 and has signif cantly depressed the value of RFS credits, known as RINs. These 85 exemptions to date have allowed oil re'ineries to avoid olending over 4 billion gallons of renewable fuel such as biogas, renewable natural gas. ethanol and biodiesel into fuels sold for domestic consumption. This huge reduction in market demand for renewable fuel causes greater damage to rerewable fuel producers, including many farms, which continue to laoor under the artificial trade constraints placed upon it by the Trump Administration.
'The Trump Administration simply cannot be trusted to properly administer the Renewable Fuel Standard. The actions taken so far are killing project development, the crealion of jobs and privale investment and, most importantly, direclly attacking the livelihood ol American farmers. This nonsense must stop and il must stop now.' said Patrick Serfass, Executive Director of the American Biogas Councl. 'The Administration and EPA need to end the issuance of small relinery exemptions, reallocate waived gallons back into the RFS, activate the dormant renewable electricity palhway that was created 1' years ago. and allow biogas projects to split their 03 and D5 RINs using the'simplified BMP methodology''
Biogas qualifies as a cellulosic fuel and can be utilized to make compressed and liquefied renewable natural gas (RNG). RNG from biogas comprises over 90% ol Ihe cellulosic category of the RFS. The ability for biogas projects to participate in the RFS brings significant value to those systems and. ir turn, the biogas systems create enormous societal benefits by recycling organic material into renewable energy and soil amendments while protecting our air, water, and soil.
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