Clean Air Task Force Files Legal Challenge to EPA RFS2 Implementation

Biofuels Journal
Date Posted: May 26, 2010

Washington—Citing EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard as “flawed,” Clean Air Task Force has today filed both a legal challenge to EPA’s rule in the US Court of Appeals and petitioned EPA to reconsider two elements of its rule.

When Congress expanded the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) biofuel mandate in 2007, it required US EPA to ensure that the biofuels provided a reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions s compared to gasoline and diesel.

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