Published in the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition Newsletter, August 21, 2018 — Washington, D.C. August 18, 2018: In comments submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Fuels Development Coalition (CFDC) said the agency needs to not only uphold ethanol volumes but needs to address regulatory barriers that would result in reduced emissions by replacing harmful aromatic compounds in gasoline.
CFDC says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to reduce regulations is holding back the U.S. ethanol industry which could produce significant volumes of clean-burning octane. The Clean Fuels Development Coalition, the Nebraska Ethanol Board, and the Nebraska Ethanol Industry Coalition were among the commenters urging EPA to embrace a broader view of the Renewable Volume Obligation proposal and address a number of issues that would make meeting the Renewable Fuel Standard a non-issue.
“The obligated parties who are not complying with the law claim the RIN prices are the problem, and RIN prices are a function of ethanol supply”, said CFDC Executive Director Doug Durante. “While RIN prices have come down dramatically, they would be pennies if EPA would allow higher ethanol blends,” he said. (Read the full article here and full comments to EPA here Clean Fuels Development Coalition EPA RVO Comments Docket ID No EPAHQOAR20180167)