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Everybody Sues the EPA Over Ethanol Requirements

Posted February 24, 2016 9:00 AM by dstrohl
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With the release of long-awaited ethanol-blending target numbers late last year, the Environmental Protection Agency managed to draw ire from both renewable fuels supporters and renewable fuels opponents. Now, almost predictably, both sides have filed lawsuits against the EPA accusing the agency of failing to do its job right.

The finalized numbers mandated a total of 18.11 billion gallons of renewable fuels for 2016 - including ethanol and biodiesel - falling short of the 22.25 billion gallons that the Renewable Fuel Standard initially envisioned, but surpassing the 17.4 billion gallons that the EPA proposed earlier in the year. The numbers also came about two years later than expected and set finalized numbers for 2014 and 2015 in retrospect.

Ethanol backers struck first, filing a lawsuit January 8, claiming that the EPA erroneously set the numbers based on demand rather than supply and that the EPA overreached in its interpretation of the RFS.

Another round of petroleum legislation finds its opponents.

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02/24/2016 3:22 PM

Aren't at least half the states in the US already suing the EPA for its misinterpretations/overstepping of its boundaries related to other things now as well?

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02/24/2016 10:04 PM

Always with the negative waves Moriarty, always with the negative waves.

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02/24/2016 10:10 PM

"Is the glass half full or half empty?"

"We'll let the lawyers decide on that one"

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02/25/2016 3:11 PM

While the Engineers sit back and say "The glass has 100% surplus capacity, it can hold double what it currently has."

And the Bartender chimes in, "Quit playing with your drinks and drink, this is a tavern, not a knitting club."

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02/25/2016 3:56 PM

I don't think there is that much beer drinking at knitting clubs. What, everyone takes a drink if someone drops a stitch?

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You'd be surprised of course I'm only familiar with quilting and crafts clubs.

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You're right, most 'book clubs' go through bottles of wine faster than they do chapters.

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<Shhh> you know that what goes on in knitting club stays in knitting club.

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02/25/2016 2:02 PM

I fail to see the major advantage of burning ethanol other than to supplement the use of other fossil fuels. It produces more CO2 when burned on an energy normalized basis, requires more energy to process, and the theory of crop sequestration of atmospheric CO2 is just that a theory. Most tilled crops actually are a source of CO2 not a sink.

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crop sequestration? I didn't think 'short-lived' plants were considered useful for that; that for human needs we had to tink in terms of plants that live for centuries, aka trees.

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