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US EPA Says it is Auditing Biofuel Producers’ Pre-owned Cooking Oil Supply<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Leah Douglas<\/p>\n

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Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Epa has actually launched examinations<\/a> into the supply chains<\/a> of a minimum of 2 renewable fuel<\/a> producers in the middle of industry issues that some may be using fraudulent feedstocks for biodiesel<\/a> to secure rewarding government aids.<\/p>\n

EPA representative Jeffrey Landis informed Reuters that the company has launched audits over the past year, however declined<\/a> to recognize the companies targeted because the investigations are ongoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The production of biodiesel<\/a> from sustainable active ingredients, like used cooking oil, can earn refiners a slew of state and federal ecological and subsidies, consisting of tradable credits under a program administered by the EPA called the Renewable Fuel<\/a> Standard<\/a>. But fears have been installing that some products identified as used cooking oil are in fact cheaper<\/a> and less sustainable virgin<\/a> palm oil, a product that is connected with logging and other ecological damage.<\/p>\n

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The problem entered into focus following a rise in used cooking oil exports from Asia in the last few years that analysts have said involves unrealistically high volumes relative to the quantity of cooking oil utilized and recovered<\/a> in the region. The European Union is also investigating feedstocks over the fraud concerns.<\/p>\n

The EPA audits began after the firm upgraded domestic supply-chain accounting requirements in July 2023 for renewable fuel manufacturers seeking to make credits<\/a> under the RFS, he stated.<\/p>\n

“EPA has conducted audits of eco-friendly fuel manufacturers given that July 2023 that includes, to name a few things, an examination of the areas that used cooking oil used in eco-friendly fuel production was collected,” he stated. “These investigations, nevertheless, are ongoing and we are not able to talk about ongoing enforcement examinations.”<\/p>\n

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U.S. senators from farm states have actually called for more oversight of biofuel<\/a> feedstocks, saying federal agencies need to be as rigorous in confirming imports as they are auditing<\/a> domestic supply<\/a> chains.<\/p>\n

“The Biden administration has actually created energetic requirements to validate, not just trust, American producers, and it is vital that the very same scrutiny is applied to imported feedstocks,” six U.S. senators, led by Roger Marshall and Sherrod<\/a> Brown, wrote in a June 20 letter to federal companies.<\/p>\n

Another letter from 15 senators to the Treasury Department on July 30 prompted<\/a> the administration to omit imported feedstocks<\/a> like UCO from an additional tidy fuel tax credit program passed in the Inflation Reduction<\/a> Act. (Reporting<\/a> by Leah Douglas in Washington Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Matthew Lewis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","employer_category":[],"employer_location":[],"class_list":["post-15947","employer","type-employer","status-publish","hentry"],"cmb2":{"_employer_general":{"_employer_attached_user":"","_employer_email":"","_employer_founded_date":"","_employer_website":"","_employer_phone":"","_employer_featured":"","_employer_cover_photo":"","_employer_cover_photo_id":"","_employer_profile_photos":"","_employer_video_url":"","_employer_layout_type":""},"_employer_socials":{"_employer_socials":""},"_employer_map_location":{"_employer_address":"","_employer_map_location":""},"_employer_team_members":{"_employer_team_members":""},"_employer_employees":{"_employer_employees":[]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enitajobs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/employer\/15947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enitajobs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/employer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enitajobs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/employer"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enitajobs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enitajobs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"employer_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enitajobs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/employer_category?post=15947"},{"taxonomy":"employer_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enitajobs.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/employer_location?post=15947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}