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By Leah Douglas

Aug 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has actually released examinations into the supply chains of a minimum of 2 sustainable fuel manufacturers amidst market concerns that some might be utilizing fraudulent feedstocks for biodiesel to protect profitable government aids.

EPA representative Jeffrey Landis informed Reuters that the agency has introduced audits over the past year, but decreased to identify the business targeted because the examinations are ongoing.

The production of biodiesel from sustainable ingredients, like utilized cooking oil, can earn refiners a slew of state and federal ecological and climate aids, consisting of tradable credits under a program administered by the EPA called the Renewable Fuel Standard. But worries have actually been installing that some supplies identified as utilized cooking oil are really less expensive and less sustainable virgin palm oil, a product that is associated with logging and other environmental damage.

The concern came into focus following a rise in used cooking oil exports from Asia recently that experts have actually stated includes unrealistically high volumes relative to the amount of cooking oil used and recuperated in the area. The European Union is likewise investigating feedstocks over the scams concerns.

The EPA audits started after the company updated domestic supply-chain accounting requirements in July 2023 for eco-friendly fuel manufacturers looking for to earn credits under the RFS, he said.

"EPA has actually carried out audits of sustainable fuel manufacturers considering that July 2023 that includes, amongst other things, an examination of the locations that used cooking oil utilized in renewable fuel production was collected," he stated. "These examinations, nevertheless, are ongoing and we are unable to discuss ongoing enforcement investigations."

U.S. senators from farm states have actually called for more oversight of biofuel feedstocks, saying federal firms need to be as strenuous in verifying imports as they are auditing domestic supply chains.

"The Biden administration has actually produced vigorous standards to verify, not just trust, American producers, and it is imperative that the exact same examination is applied to imported feedstocks," six U.S. senators, led by Roger Marshall and Sherrod Brown, composed in a June 20 letter to .

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