EPA: 6 new SRE petitions filed; 195 SRE petitions currently pending
SOURCE: U.S. EPA
July 18, 2025
BY Erin Krueger
The U.S. EPA on July 17 published updated small refinery exemption (SRE) data, reporting that six new SRE petitions have been filed under the Renewable Fuel Standard during the past month. A total of 195 SRE petitions are now pending.
The newly filed SRE petitions include two filed for RFS compliance year 2025, two for RFS compliance year 2024, one for RFS compliance year 2023 and one for RFS compliance year 2022.
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According to EPA’s SRE data dashboard, CHS Laurel Refinery in June filed two SRE petitions seeking a waiver of its 2022 and 223 RFS blending requirements for its facility in Laurel, Montana. The San Antonio Refinery on June 30 filed an SRE petition seeking a waiver of the 2025 RFS blending obligations for its refinery in San Antonio, Texas. Wynnewood Refining Co. on July 7 filed an SRE petition seeking a waiver of the 2025 RFS blending requirements for its facility in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. Silver Eagle Evanston and Silver Eagle Wood Cross on July 8 filed petitions seeking waivers of 2024 RFS blending requirements for their respective facilities, which are located in Evanston, Wyoming, and Woods Cross, Utah.
The 195 currently pending SRE petitions include two for compliance year 2016; one for compliance year 2017; 38 for compliance year 2018; 29 for compliance year 2019; 30 for compliance year 2020; 20 for compliance year 2021; 19 for compliance year 2022; 20 for compliance year 2023; 28 for compliance year 2024; and eight for compliance year 2025.
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The EPA took no action to approve or deny any SRE petitions during the past month.
The EPA’s online SRE data dashboard also includes data on small refineries that have opted into the agency’s alternative renewable identification number (RIN) retirement schedule for the 2020 compliance year. According to the EPA’s online data dashboard, 17 small refineries are participating in the alternative RIN retirement schedule, with the total RVO those refineries at 880 million RINs. A total of 540 million RINs have been retired under the alternative retirement schedule as of July 17. The total outstanding RVO is currently at 340 million RINs, according to EPA’s data dashboard.
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