# Federal Register
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      Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Standards for 2026 and 2027, Partial Waiver of 2025 Cellulosic Biofuel Volume Requirement, and Other Changes; Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

> The Federal Register published the EPA supplemental proposed rule on RFS standards for 2026 and 2027, along with a partial waiver of the 2025 cellulosic biofuel volume requirement. The document recaps the June proposal and the August 22 decisions on 175 small refinery exemption petitions.

- Date: 2025-09-18 · published 2025-09-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/15088-federal-register-renewable-fuel-standard-rfs-program-standards-for-2026-and
- Commodities: [Soybean Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBO.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

The formal rulemaking confirms the policy path that determines future biomass-based diesel demand, supporting soybean oil and soybean crush margins.

## Read by commodity

- SBO: bullish ▲
- SOY: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SBO | 2022-07-01 | [Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: Standards for 2026 and 2027, Partial Waiver of 2025 Cellulosic Biofuel Volume Requirement, and Other Changes \| 90 FR 25784](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15380-renewable-fuel-standard-rfs-program-standards-for-2026-and-2027-partial-waiver.md) | -7.8% | -10.0% |
| SBO | 2019-10-28 | [Federal Register
       :: 
      Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021, and Response to the Remand of the 2016 Standards; Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56437-federal-register-renewable-fuel-standard-program-standards-for-2020-and-biomass.md) | +0.2% | -0.3% |
| SBO | 2018-06-26 | [Federal Register
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      Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2019 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2020](https://feedsoft.ai/events/64400-federal-register-renewable-fuel-standard-program-standards-for-2019-and-biomass.md) | -0.6% | -2.4% |
| SBO | 2018-12-11 | [Federal Register
       :: 
      Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2019 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2020](https://feedsoft.ai/events/61458-federal-register-renewable-fuel-standard-program-standards-for-2019-and-biomass.md) | -1.2% | -0.7% |
| SBO | 2016-12-12 | [Federal Register
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      Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2017 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2018](https://feedsoft.ai/events/73340-federal-register-renewable-fuel-standard-program-standards-for-2017-and-biomass.md) | -0.0% | -3.6% |
| SOY | 2019-09-12 | [Proposed Volumes for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021: Supplemental Notice \| US EPA](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56931-proposed-volumes-for-2020-and-biomass-based-diesel-volume-for-2021-supplemental.md) | +4.1% | +8.2% |
| SOY | 2022-04-18 | [Federal Register
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      Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Canola Oil Pathways to Renewable Diesel, Jet Fuel, Naphtha, Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Heating Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15400-federal-register-renewable-fuel-standard-program-canola-oil-pathways-to.md) | +2.0% | +2.4% |
| SOY | 2025-09-16 | [EPA Proposes Renewable Fuel Standards Supplemental Rule, Addresses Small Refinery Exemptions \| US EPA](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15087-epa-proposes-renewable-fuel-standards-supplemental-rule-addresses-small.md) | -3.0% | -3.4% |

## Sources

- federalregister.gov: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/18/2025-18111/renewable-fuel-standard-rfs-program-standards-for-2026-and-2027-partial-waiver-of-2025-cellulosic

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