RFA Slams EPA
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson. Renewable Fuels Association head Geoff Cooper slammed the Environmental Protection Agencies’ tailpipe emissions rule AND delays in issuing new RFS volumes and tax credit rules.
Cooper’s group joined other Ag groups in suing the EPA over its stringent tailpipe emission rule and isn’t buying the agency’s denial the rule is a ‘mandate’ …
COOPER … “You can call it whatever you want, but if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s a duck. The only way automakers can comply with these standards, long-term, is to dramatically increase the production of electric vehicles and dramatically reduce the production of internal combustion engine vehicles.”
Forcing two-thirds of new-light duty vehicle sales to be EVs by 2032.
Cooper says RFA’s members are still waiting for Treasury rules and guidance on tax credits due next year …
COOPER … “What will the carbon intensity modeling look like, how will climate-smart ag practices be integrated into carbon intensity scoring and just so many other questions.”
Cooper is confident the final rules will unbundle and expand climate-smart practices and fertilizer use.
Also unresolved are year-round E15 sales outside of eight Midwest states, an RFA appeal to the Supreme Court on Small Refinery Exemptions, and new Renewable Volume Obligations due November 1st …
COOPER … “EPA has already made clear that they won’t make that deadline. We don’t think we’ll see a proposal until well after the election, but won’t see a final rule until this time, next year.”
Cooper says RFA is also pressing the EPA to restrict tax credits going to mislabeled cooking oil and tallow from China and Brazil.
