Reports leaked out of the Administration this week that President Trump has directed EPA to deny all of the so-called gap year small refinery exemption petitions. As we reported previously, the Department of Energy (DOE) has made recommendations on the 58 gap year petitions that were received earlier this year, and EPA will now send nine new petitions to DOE for review. Additionally, EPA received one additional petition for 2019 and two more for 2020. That brings the total number of SRE petitions to 98. Last year the 10th District federal appeals Court ruled that any SREs granted to refineries after 2010 could only be approved as extensions to prior existing SRE waivers (the ruling only extends to the States in the 10th District unti...
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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