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Hearing Hearing Date: March 16, 2016 2:00 pm 2154 Rayburn House Office Building

Examining the Renewable Fuel Standard

Subject
Examining the Renewable Fuel Standard
Date
March 16, 2016
Time
2:00 pm
Place
2154 Rayburn House Office Building
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PURPOSE:

  • To examine the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) management of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.

BACKGROUND:

  • The RFS dictates that a specific amount of renewable fuel must be mixed into transportation fuel sold in the United States. Ethanol is the most common ingredient blended in order to comply with RFS.
  • Due to delays in issuing annual blending mandates, EPA must issue retroactive mandates.
  • On November 30, 2015, EPA released the final renewal fuel volume obligations for the years 2014, 2015, 2016 simultaneously.
    • For 2014, the total volume of renewable fuel blended into the national supply was 16.28 billion gallons.
    • The final mandate for 2015 was 16.93 billion gallons, and 18.11 billion gallons for 2016.

 

Witnesses and testimonies: Christopher Grundler

Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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John M. DeCicco, Ph.D.

Research Professor
University of Michigan Energy Institute

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Kelly Stone

Policy Analyst
ActionAid USA

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Wallace E. Tyner, Ph.D.

James and Lois Ackerman Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

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Nicolas D. Loris

Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow
The Heritage Foundation

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