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1 US EPA Says it is Auditing Biofuel Producers' Secondhand Cooking Oil Supply
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By Leah Douglas

Aug 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released investigations into the supply chains of a minimum of two renewable fuel producers amid market concerns that some might be utilizing deceitful feedstocks for biodiesel to protect lucrative government aids.

EPA representative Jeffrey Landis told Reuters that the firm has actually launched audits over the previous year, but declined to recognize the business targeted since the examinations are continuous.

The production of biodiesel from sustainable active ingredients, like utilized cooking oil, can make refiners a variety of state and federal ecological and environment subsidies, including tradable credits under a program administered by the EPA called the Renewable Fuel Standard. But fears have been mounting that some materials identified as utilized cooking oil are in fact cheaper and less sustainable virgin palm oil, a product that is related to deforestation and other ecological damage.

The concern entered into focus following a rise in utilized cooking oil exports from Asia in current years that experts have actually stated involves unrealistically high volumes relative to the quantity of cooking oil used and recuperated in the region. The European Union is likewise examining feedstocks over the scams concerns.

The EPA audits began after the company updated domestic supply-chain accounting requirements in July 2023 for renewable fuel manufacturers seeking to earn credits under the RFS, he stated.

"EPA has performed audits of eco-friendly fuel manufacturers since July 2023 that includes, to name a few things, an examination of the areas that used cooking oil used in sustainable fuel production was gathered," he said. "These investigations, nevertheless, are ongoing and we are unable to go over continuous enforcement investigations."

U.S. senators from farm states have required more oversight of biofuel feedstocks, stating federal firms ought to be as strenuous in verifying imports as they are auditing domestic supply chains.

"The Biden administration has actually created energetic standards to confirm, not just trust, American manufacturers, and it is necessary that the very same scrutiny is used to imported feedstocks," six U.S. senators, led by Roger Marshall and Sherrod Brown, composed in a June 20 letter to federal companies.

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