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US EPA Says it is Auditing Biofuel Producers’ Secondhand Cooking Oil Supply
By Leah Douglas
Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Epa has introduced investigations into the supply chains of a minimum of two eco-friendly fuel producers amid market concerns that some might be using fraudulent feedstocks for biodiesel to government aids.
EPA spokesperson Jeffrey Landis informed Reuters that the firm has actually released audits over the previous year, but declined to recognize the companies targeted due to the fact that the examinations are ongoing.
The production of biodiesel from sustainable ingredients, like used cooking oil, can earn refiners a slew of state and federal environmental and climate aids, including tradable credits under a program administered by the EPA called the Renewable Fuel Standard. But fears have actually been installing that some materials identified as used cooking oil are actually less expensive and less sustainable virgin palm oil, a product that is connected with logging and other environmental damage.
The issue entered focus following a surge in utilized cooking oil exports from Asia in the last few years that experts have actually said includes unrealistically high volumes relative to the quantity of cooking oil used and recovered in the area. The European Union is likewise investigating feedstocks over the fraud concerns.
The EPA audits started after the company updated domestic supply-chain accounting requirements in July 2023 for eco-friendly fuel producers looking for to earn credits under the RFS, he said.
“EPA has performed audits of sustainable fuel producers because July 2023 that includes, to name a few things, an assessment of the areas that utilized cooking oil used in sustainable fuel production was collected,” he stated. “These investigations, however, are ongoing and we are not able to go over continuous enforcement investigations.”
U.S. senators from farm states have required more oversight of biofuel feedstocks, stating federal firms need to be as extensive in verifying imports as they are auditing domestic supply chains.
“The Biden administration has developed energetic standards to validate, not just trust, American producers, and it is essential that the very same analysis 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 prompted the administration to exclude imported feedstocks like UCO from an additional clean fuel tax credit program passed in the Inflation Reduction Act. (Reporting by Leah Douglas in Washington Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Matthew Lewis)