The Environmental Protection Agency is ramping up its efforts to crackdown against violators of its ethanol mandate and renewable fuel standard, or RFS.

The EPA and the Justice Department took a number of enforcement actions on Tuesday against two large shipping and production companies for violating the RFS, in what appeared to be an attempt to game the system.

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