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By Leah Douglas

Aug 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has introduced examinations into the supply chains of a minimum of 2 renewable fuel manufacturers in the middle of industry concerns that some might be utilizing fraudulent feedstocks for biodiesel to secure rewarding government subsidies.

EPA representative Jeffrey Landis told Reuters that the agency has introduced audits over the previous year, but decreased to determine the companies targeted due to the fact that the investigations are ongoing.

The production of biodiesel from sustainable components, like utilized cooking oil, can earn refiners a slew of state and federal ecological and environment aids, consisting of tradable credits under a program administered by the EPA called the Renewable Fuel Standard. But fears have actually been installing that some materials identified as utilized cooking oil are actually more affordable and less sustainable virgin palm oil, an item that is associated with logging and other environmental damage.

The problem came into focus following a rise in utilized cooking oil exports from Asia in current years that experts have stated includes unrealistically high volumes relative to the quantity of cooking oil used and recuperated in the area. The European Union is likewise examining feedstocks over the scams issues.

The EPA audits started after the firm updated domestic supply-chain accounting requirements in July 2023 for renewable fuel producers looking for to earn credits under the RFS, he stated.

"EPA has conducted audits of sustainable fuel manufacturers since July 2023 that includes, to name a few things, an evaluation of the locations that used cooking oil used in eco-friendly fuel production was collected," he said. "These investigations, nevertheless, are ongoing and we are not able to go over ongoing enforcement investigations."

U.S. senators from farm states have called for more oversight of biofuel feedstocks, saying federal agencies should be as rigorous in confirming imports as they are supply chains.

"The Biden administration has produced vigorous requirements to validate, not simply 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 federal companies.

Another letter from 15 senators to the Treasury Department on July 30 urged the administration to omit 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)