ERGON-WEST VIRGINIA, INC. v. U.S. E.P.A.

No. 17-1839.

896 F.3d 600 (2018)

ERGON-WEST VIRGINIA, INCORPORATED, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: July 20, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jonathan Grant Hardin , PERKINS COIE LLP, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Patrick Reinhold Jacobi , UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Respondent. ON BRIEF: LeAnn M. Johnson , PERKINS COIE LLP, Washington, D.C., for Petitioner. Jeffrey H. Wood , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Environmental and Natural Resources Division, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C.; Susan Stahle , UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Washington, D.C., for Respondent.

Petition for review granted, final agency action vacated, and remanded for further proceedings by published opinion. Judge Agee wrote the opinion, in which Judge Niemeyer and Judge Xinis joined.


Until 2011, Ergon-West Virginia, Inc. enjoyed an exemption as a small refinery from the Environmental Protection Agency's renewable fuel standard program, which requires refineries and other facilities to allocate a certain percentage of their fuel production to renewable fuels. When Ergon filed for an extension of the small...

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