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US EPA Says it is Auditing Biofuel Producers' Pre owned Cooking Oil Supply

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By Leah Douglas

Aug 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released examinations into the supply chains of a minimum of 2 sustainable fuel manufacturers amidst market concerns that some might be using deceptive feedstocks for biodiesel to protect rewarding government subsidies.

EPA representative Jeffrey Landis informed Reuters that the company has launched audits over the past year, however decreased to identify the business targeted due to the fact that the investigations are continuous.

The production of biodiesel from sustainable active ingredients, like used cooking oil, can make refiners a variety of state and federal ecological and environment aids, consisting of tradable credits under a program administered by the EPA called the Renewable Fuel Standard. But fears have been installing that some supplies labeled as utilized cooking oil are really more affordable and less sustainable virgin palm oil, an item that is associated with logging and other ecological damage.

The problem entered focus following a rise in utilized cooking oil exports from Asia in the last few years that analysts have actually stated involves unrealistically high volumes relative to the quantity of cooking oil used and recovered in the area. The European Union is also examining feedstocks over the scams concerns.

The EPA audits began after the firm upgraded domestic supply-chain accounting requirements in July 2023 for renewable fuel manufacturers seeking to make credits under the RFS, he said.

"EPA has actually conducted audits of sustainable fuel producers since July 2023 which consists of, to name a few things, an examination of the locations that used cooking oil utilized in renewable fuel production was gathered," he said. "These investigations, nevertheless, are ongoing and we are unable to talk about ongoing enforcement examinations."

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

"The Biden administration has developed energetic standards to verify, not just trust, American producers, and it is essential that the very same scrutiny is applied to imported feedstocks," six U.S. senators, led by Roger Marshall and Sherrod Brown, wrote in a June 20 letter to .

Another letter from 15 senators to the Treasury Department on July 30 urged the administration to leave out imported feedstocks like UCO from an extra clean fuel tax credit program passed in the Inflation Reduction Act. (Reporting by Leah Douglas in Washington Editing by Richard Valdmanis and Matthew Lewis)