US EPA Says it is Auditing Biofuel Producers' Secondhand Cooking Oil Supply > 자유게시판

By Leah Douglas

Aug 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released examinations into the supply chains of at least two eco-friendly fuel producers amid industry concerns that some may be using deceitful feedstocks for biodiesel to secure profitable federal government aids.

EPA spokesperson Jeffrey Landis informed Reuters that the firm has actually released audits over the past year, however declined to determine the companies targeted due to the fact that the examinations are ongoing.

The production of biodiesel from sustainable active ingredients, like utilized cooking oil, can make refiners a multitude of state and federal environmental and environment aids, consisting of tradable credits under a program administered by the EPA called the Renewable Fuel Standard. But worries have actually been mounting that some materials identified as utilized cooking oil are really less expensive and less sustainable virgin palm oil, an item that is associated with deforestation and other ecological damage.

The concern came into focus following a rise in used cooking oil exports from Asia recently that experts have actually said involves unrealistically high volumes relative to the amount of cooking oil utilized and recovered in the area. The European Union is also examining feedstocks over the scams concerns.

The EPA audits started after the agency updated domestic supply-chain accounting requirements in July 2023 for renewable fuel producers seeking to earn credits under the RFS, he stated.

"EPA has conducted audits of renewable fuel producers considering that July 2023 that includes, to name a few things, an examination of the areas that utilized cooking oil used in renewable fuel production was collected," he said. "These examinations, nevertheless, are ongoing and we are not able to talk about continuous enforcement investigations."

U.S. senators from farm states have actually required more oversight of biofuel feedstocks, saying federal agencies should be as extensive in confirming imports as they are auditing domestic supply chains.

"The Biden administration has actually produced vigorous requirements to verify, not simply trust, American manufacturers, and it is necessary that the very same scrutiny is applied to imported feedstocks," six U.S. senators, led by Roger Marshall and Sherrod Brown, composed in a June 20 letter to federal agencies.

Another letter from 15 senators to the Treasury Department on July 30 the administration to exclude imported feedstocks like UCO from an extra clean fuel tax credit program passed in the Inflation Reduction Act. (Reporting by Leah Douglas in Washington Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Matthew Lewis)

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