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USA: EPA continues with renewable fuels push

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to continue with the increase of renewable fuel volume requirements for 2017 as decided in November 2016.



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The Regulatory Freeze Pending Review by the new US administration, which was applied to the renewable fuel volume requirements for 2017, has expired; meaning the EPA continues to implement the final ruling under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program as published on 23 November 2016.

The ruling calls for increases in the renewable fuel volume requirements for 2017, and includes a volume requirement for biomass-based diesel for 2018.

The EPA ruling provides for increases across all types of biofuels. For 2017, the EPA's volume requirements for advanced biofuels are 4.28bn gallons and for all renewable fuels 19.28bn gallons as decided in November 2016. The Agency has set the volume requirement for biomass-based diesel to 2.0bn gallons for 2017 (up from 1.9bn gallons in 2016) and 2.1bn gallons for 2018.

"We are pleased with the EPA's continued commitment to the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. Determination and ambitious targets are required to combat climate change globally," says Kaisa Hietala, Executive Vice President of Neste's Renewable Products business area.

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