August 22, 2025
This morning, EPA announced its decision regarding 175 small refinery petitions sitting before it. These petitions were for compliance years 2016-2024.
EPA is granting a full exemption to 63 petitions, granting partial, or half, exemptions to 77 petitions, denying 28 petitions, and determining 7 petitions to be ineligible.
In addition to this decision, EPA makes a lengthy argument as to where judicial review of each petition should take place, coming to the conclusion the “final actions discussed within the August 2025 SRE Decisions Action are based on determinations of nationwide scope or effect for purposed of CAA section 307(b)(1) and thus any judicial review required must be filed in the D.C. Circuit courts.”
Petitioners seeking judicial review, will have 60 days after the date of publication on the federal register to file.
RIN prices initially rose in response to the decision.
EPA outlined its evaluation process, implementation plans, and final action on the petitions in the August 2025 Decisions for RFS Small Refinery Exemptions.
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