On December 17, 2019, Congressional negotiators reached agreement to extend the biodiesel tax incentive through 2022. The incentive had expired two years earlier, but the legislation provided for 2018 and 2019.  The biodiesel industry has sought a multiyear extension...

On October 4, 2019, President Trump directed the Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that small refinery exemptions would no longer undercut Renewable Fuel Standard volumes. Subsequently, EPA included an estimate of future small refinery exemptions in the 2020...

The Environmental Protection Agency estimated small refinery exemptions when setting the annual RFS volumes beginning in 2020, which will help to limit future damage to the biofuel industry. Congress has proposed two bills -- the Renewable Fuel Standard Integrity Act...