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NEW YORK, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The United States generated more renewable blending credits in December versus the prior month, data from the Environmental Protection Agency showed on Wednesday.
About 1.30 billion ethanol (D6) blending credits were generated in December, compared with about 1.19 billion in November, the data showed.
Credits generated from biodiesel (D4) blending rose to about 899 million in December from 732 million the month prior, the data showed.
The credits are used by oil refiners and importers to show compliance with EPA-mandated renewable blending quotas for petroleum-based fuels. They are generated with every gallon of biofuel produced.
The following is a table of the credit generation for December by credit type.
Fuel (D) code | RINs | Volume (Gal.) |
D3 | 85,941,659 | 85,941,659 |
D4 | 898,865,628 | 556,454,142 |
D5 | 27,069,130 | 18,396,070 |
D6 | 1,296,916,096 | 1,296,815,536 |
(Reporting by Shariq Khan in New York; Editing by Will Dunham)
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