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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 2 renewable fuel manufacturers amid market issues that some might be utilizing deceptive feedstocks for biodiesel to protect lucrative government aids.

EPA spokesperson Jeffrey Landis told Reuters that the agency has introduced audits over the previous year, however declined to determine the business targeted due to the fact that the investigations are ongoing.

The production of biodiesel from sustainable components, like utilized cooking oil, can earn 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 been installing that some supplies identified as used cooking oil are actually less expensive and less sustainable virgin palm oil, a product that is associated with deforestation and other ecological damage.

The problem entered into focus following a surge in used cooking oil exports from Asia recently that experts have stated 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 began after the agency updated domestic supply-chain accounting requirements in July 2023 for renewable fuel manufacturers looking for to make credits under the RFS, he said.

“EPA has actually performed audits of sustainable fuel producers since July 2023 which includes, among other things, an assessment of the areas that used cooking oil utilized in sustainable fuel production was collected,” he stated. “These investigations, nevertheless, are continuous and we are not able to go over ongoing enforcement examinations.”

U.S. senators from farm states have actually called for more oversight of biofuel feedstocks, stating federal firms must be as rigorous in validating imports as they are auditing domestic supply chains.

“The Biden administration has actually created energetic standards to validate, not simply trust, American manufacturers, and it is essential that the same scrutiny is applied to imported feedstocks,” 6 U.S. senators, led by Roger Marshall and Brown, wrote in a June 20 letter to federal firms.

Another letter from 15 senators to the Treasury Department on July 30 prompted the administration to leave out imported feedstocks like UCO from an extra tidy 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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