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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an effort to streamline the evaluation of, and approval process for, new chemicals that could be used as feedstocks or fuels under the agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The EPA’s initiative is intended to support advancement of a more aggressive stance towards mitigating climate change.

The U.S. Federal Register published a new set of compliance deadlines set by the EPA for obligated parties under the agency’s RFS. The EPA published a version of the final rule setting the new deadlines on its website. From now on, deadlines are defined relative to the date of publication of the EPA’s yearly Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) under the program. This fina