RPT-Small U.S. refiners plan to challenge biofuel blending waiver denials

Jul 18, 2023 View Original Article
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    4% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    38% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has the authority to issue the waivers, on Friday denied exemption requests from 15 small refineries in a move that corn farmers and ethanol producers welcomed."
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"As the EPA under President Joe Biden has not granted any refiner an exemption, the EPA's decision last week was not a surprise, Tudor, Pickering, Holt and Co's Matthew Blair said in a note on Monday."
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-14% Liberal
"A group of refiners plan to file a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration's rejection of waivers to exempt oil refiners from biofuel blending mandates which has left some on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars, Par Pacific told Reuters on Monday."
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54% : The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which has the authority to issue the waivers, on Friday denied exemption requests from 15 small refineries in a move that corn farmers and ethanol producers welcomed.

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