Biodiesel Board motions to intervene with API/NPRA RFS2 lawsuits.
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In response to API and NPRA lawsuits regarding Renewable Fuels Standard, NBB CEO Joe Jobe said biodiesel industry will intervene on behalf of EPA in defense of renewable goals required by law. Jobe says that API and NPRA lawsuits lack merit and undermine renewable goals established by Congress. "NBB will vigorously defend both interests of U.S. biodiesel industry and common-sense premise that displacing petroleum with Advanced Biofuels like biodiesel is in nation's best interests," he said.
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Statement Regarding NBB Motion to Intervene in API and NPRA RFS2 Lawsuits
WASHINGTON, DC - the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) filed lawsuits in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit regarding the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2).
Today, Joe Jobe, the National Biodiesel Board's (NBB) Chief Executive Officer, issued the following statement regarding the biodiesel industry's decision to intervene in the litigation on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and in defense of renewable goals required by law:
"Congress explicitly established minimum volume requirements starting in 2009 for Biomass-based Diesel when it expanded the Renewable Fuels Standard in the 2007 Energy Bill. The final RFS2 rule must ensure the volume requirements mandated each year by Congress are implemented consistent with an energy policy that values the displacement of petroleum diesel fuel with low-carbon, renewable fuels like biodiesel.
"The API and NPRA lawsuits lack merit. The petroleum industry has long been on notice of the statute's volume mandates and their obligations under the program. The lawsuits ask the Court to ignore these statutory requirements, undermining the renewable goals established by Congress, in an apparent effort to further delay, stymie, and frustrate implementation of sensible public policy that displaces foreign oil with clean-burning, domestically produced biodiesel. I am optimistic that the courts will disregard this frivolous effort to stall implementation of RFS2.
"As the legal process moves forward, the NBB will vigorously defend both the interests of the U.S. biodiesel industry and the common-sense premise that displacing petroleum with Advanced Biofuels like biodiesel is in the nation's best interests."
The NBB is the national trade association of the biodiesel industry and is the coordinating body for biodiesel research and development in the U.S. NBB's membership is comprised of biodiesel producers and marketers; state, national, and international feedstock and feedstock processor organizations; and technology providers.
Additional information about biodiesel is available online at www.biodiesel.org.
