MOSCOW (MRC) -- Executives of 16 US refiners have asked President Donald Trump to side with small refineries on pending petitions for small refinery hardship relief under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in conversations with the Environmental Protection Agency, reported Reuters with reference to a letter signed on Monday.
“We ask that you resist efforts to harm the critical energy infrastructure you have fought so hard to protect during your Presidency under the false premise that doing so will help farmers,” wrote executives at refiners, including Par Hawaii Refining, Sinclair Casper Refining and Calumet Montana and Shreveport Refining.
The US Department of Energy recommended that some of the oil refiners that applied for retroactive exemptions from the nation’s biofuel blending law be granted partial relief, Reuters reported earlier this month.
As MRC wrote before, the US Department of Energy has finished reviewing retroactive requests from refiners for exemptions from the nation’s biofuel blending laws and has sent recommendations on how to address those requests to the Environmental Protection Agency, Senator Chuck Grassley said in mid-August. The EPA now has 90 days to review the recommendations, said Grassley, a senator from Iowa, the top ethanol-producing state. The agency will consider 58 pending requests for compliance years 2011 through 2018, EPA data showed.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing PE and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's DataScope report, PE imports to Russia dropped in January-June 2020 by 7% year on year to 328,000 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the main decrease in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia rose in the first six months of 2020 by 21% year on year to 105,300 tonnes. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase in imports.
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