This case involves failure on the part of Parallel Environmental Services Corporation and two of its subsidiaries, USL Parallel Products of California, and Parallel Products of Kentucky, Inc. (collectively Parallel Products ), renewable fuel producers to conduct a third party engineering review under the Renewable Fuels Standard requiremnts ( RFS ) promulgated under the Clean Air Act. Parallel Products also failed to submit a number of reports required by RFS.
Parallel Products reported the violations to EPA on November 4, 2009.
The (RFS) program requires producers or importers of renewable fuel to generate fuel credits, known as RINs, in proportion to the amount and type of renewable fuel they produced or imported. The RFS Program also requires that non-renewable fuel refiners and importers, known as obligated parties, and renewable fuel exporters obtain valid RINs and retire those RINs each year by submitting them to the EPA. Congress adopted the RFS Program to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil, help grow the nation's renewable energy industry and achieve significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions. The EPA is charged with developing the RFS program and enforcing its requirements.
As part of the settlement with EPA, Parallel Products agree to pay a $145,000 civil penalty to the United States Treasury.