The EPA is floating a trial balloon of maintaining the 2020 RVOs for 2021 and 2022. In April, a group of Senators urged EPA to add 500 million gallons to the ethanol RVO to amend for the 2016 court case that ruled the EPA improperly waived that amount, and to “increase biodiesel, advanced, and cellulosic volumes.” The proposed rule is typically published sometime in the May-June-July timeframe. It is then open for comments, with the final rule published by the statutory deadline of 30 November and it goes into effect the following year. Last May, EPA sent proposed required volume obligations (RVOs) for 2021 to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and sign-off before they were published for comment. &n...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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