The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing steady increases in required renewable fuel volumes over the next three years. 

The plan offers much needed certainty after years of missed deadlines on fuel blending requirements under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), although the biodiesel groups lamented that the plan underestimates the industry’s potential.

“AFBF applauds EPA’s proposed increases in renewable volumes under the Renewable Fuel Standard. Long-term stability and a clear indication of obligations for the next three years are welcomed along with the potential of additional producers participating under the RFS,” said American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall. “Renewable fuels have been a tremendous success story...