The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may be unable to come up with a decision for next year’s biofuel blending requirements by the November 30 deadline because of the coronavirus pandemic, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said . The agency has not decided on applications from refiners to be exempt from those blending requirements, either, Wheeler said on a call with reporters, carried by Reuters. “The COVID response has had a negative impact on both corn growers as well as refiners, and we’re trying to understand what the market is going to be and what we should expect for next year as far as the RVO [Renewable Volume Obligations] is concerned,” EPA’s administrator said. The agency is also considering as many as 67 applications from refiners across the United States to be exempted from the obligations to blend biofuels. Typically, refiners able to prove that blending requirements lead to financial […]