Farm, fuel groups celebrate EPA proposals to reallocate small refinery exemptions

By: Cami Koons

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: October 13, 2026

Words: 630

Last Updated: 4 days, 14 hours ago

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Farmers and biofuel producers in Iowa are celebrating a proposal from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to reallocate renewable fuel requirements from which small refineries received an exemption.

The move ensures that renewable fuel blending standards set by the EPA are maintained after small refineries — that prove they would receive “disproportionate economic hardship,” by complying with the renewable fuel standards — receive exemptions from EPA.

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