ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 11, 2025/ PRNewswire/– NATSO, representing truck stops and travel centers, SIGMA: America’s Leading Fuel Online marketers, and the National Association of Benefit Stores (NACS), applauded the Trump Administration for its significant effort to carry out prompt rulemakings to reorient the Sustainable Fuel Requirement and put it ‘back on track.’
The Epa’s 2026 and 2027 proposed Renewable Volume Responsibilities adhere much more carefully to the marketplace’s capability to take in biofuel than the last volumes of 2024 and 2025. NATSO, SIGMA and NACS support the proposed trajectory and are grateful that the company seems keeping the RFS program on track for development.
NATSO, SIGMA and NACS advise EPA not to forget the proposition’s real-world effect on retail fuel rates and stand prepared to deal with the Administration to execute this essential and complicated regulative requirement. The best policy structure will drive eco-friendly fuel usage– strengthening America’s biofuels market– while restricting inflationary pressures on fuel rates.
NATSO, SIGMA and NACS detailed the following policies in remarks submitted with EPA:
Lowering Sustainable Recognition Number (RIN) generation for imported fuels and feedstocks will result in market volatility. Offering equivalent treatment for fuels and feedstocks coming from the United States, Canada and Mexico can line up the RFS with the ‘Area 45Z’ Tidy Fuel Production Tax Credit, preventing intricacy in between these 2 rewards. Additionally, EPA ought to preserve general RVO levels by downsizing the arrangements for imported fuels and feedstocks and increase the RVO by a comparable quantity.
Reject all little refinery exemption petitions. All refiners, no matter size, embed the RVO costs into their gross processing margin and do not suffer out of proportion damage. Little refiners bring the very same market dangers and unpredictability facing bigger refiners when making RIN purchase choices. If EPA grants SRE waivers, it ought to reallocate waived responsibilities.
Get rid of favoritism for eco-friendly jet fuel under the RFS. EPA ought to obligate petroleum jet fuel under the RFS or prevent eco-friendly jet fuel manufacturers from creating RIN credits. Permitting eco-friendly jet fuel manufacturers to generate income from RINs prevents the production of over-the-road biofuels and minimizes general biofuel usage. EPA ought to pass by winners and losers in between jet fuel and over-the-road fuel under the RFS.
Avoid working out EPA’s cellulosic waiver authority within continuous compliance years. Partly waiving the 2025 cellulosic biofuel volume requirement utilizing the cellulosic waiver authority while at the same time proposing 2026 and 2027 volumes lower than those initially completed for 2025 will dissuade eco-friendly gas financial investment.
The RFS triggers fuel merchants to include biofuels into their diesel supply as a way of decreasing rates for customers and acquiring market share. NATSO, SIGMA and NACS members make up around 90 percent of fuel cost retail in the United States, consisting of essentially all retail sales of biodiesel and eco-friendly diesel fuels that are incentivized under the RFS.
About NATSO, SIGMA, and NACS
NATSO is the trade association representing America’s travel center and truck stop market. Established in 1960, NATSO represents the market on legal and regulative matters; works as the main source of info on the varied travel center, truck stop and off-highway fuel retail markets; offers education to its members; carries out a yearly convention and exhibition; and supports efforts to typically enhance business environment in which its members run. To find out more check out NATSO.com. Follow NATSO on Facebook; Instagram; LinkedIn; and X. Contact: Tiffany Wlazlowski Neuman, Vice President, Public Affairs. 202-365-9459
SIGMA is the nationwide trade association representing the most effective, progressive, and ingenious fuel online marketers and chain merchants in the United States and Canada Established in 1958 as the Society of Independent Gas Online Marketers of America (SIGMA), SIGMA has actually ended up being a component in the motor fuel marketing market. Representing a varied subscription of around 250 independent chain merchants and online marketers of motor fuel, the association serves to enhance the interests of both the top quality and unbranded sector of the market while offering info and services to members. To find out more check out SIGMA.org.
NACS For more than 60 years, NACS has actually been acknowledged as the best association for benefit and fuel merchants. NACS has more than 1,000 retail member business that cumulatively represent more than 200,000 shops in 50-plus nations, consisting of 90,000 shops in the United States alone. The U.S. corner store market, with more than 152,000 shops across the country offering fuel, food and product, carries out 160 million deals day-to-day and had sales of $ 837 billion in 2024. To find out more, check out convenience.org. Follow NACS on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
CONTACT: Tiffany Wlazlowski, twlazlowski@natso.com
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