Ethanol Blog

Sen. Charles Grassley wants the EPA to provide regular updates on how it is implementing a plan to account for biofuel gallons not blended because of small-refinery exemptions.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office announced on Friday it will investigate the small-refinery exemptions program.

China put on hold plans to implement a national E10 mandate in response to corn stocks falling.

EPA has received 16 new requests for small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard for 2019.

A refining company launched a new digital advertising campaign launched in Washington, D.C., to convince lawmakers to approve a renewal of the biodiesel blenders tax credit.

A group of Midwest senators ask President Donald Trump to uphold a biofuels agreement on small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Biodiesel and agriculture interests tell Congressional leadership an extension of the biodiesel blenders tax credit is needed to save the industry.

A group of about 60 agriculture and biofuels interest groups have written a letter to President Donald Trump, pointing out concerns they have with the small-refinery exemptions proposal.

Agriculture and biofuels stakeholders on an Oct. 3 briefing call announcing the Trump administration's biofuels plan were not given details on the methodology used by EPA to project small-refinery exemptions in future years.

A group of Republican lawmakers have asked EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to reconsider a recent proposed biofuels plan.

The Governors' Biofuels Coalition has asked President Donald Trump to take a number of executive actions on biofuels.

Leaders from the U.S. biodiesel industry have requested a meeting with the U.S. Department of Commerce on plans to scale back countervailing duties slapped on biodiesel imports from Argentina.

Corn grower leaders have asked President Donald Trump to uphold the Renewable Fuel Standard by reallocating biofuels gallons lost to small-refinery exemptions.

With negotiations ongoing on a possible deal on the Renewable Fuel Standard, an agriculture economist puts forward an idea that he says could appease both oil and ethanol interests.

Siouxland Energy Cooperative has decided to idle its corn-ethanol plant in northwest Iowa.

Senators from oil-producing states tell Trump they oppose reallocating biofuels gallons lost to small-refinery exemptions.

The National Biodiesel Board asked President Donald Trump on Monday to save its industry from the effects of small-refinery exemptions.

The Brazilian government announced it will allow more ethanol imported from the United States before a 20% tariff kicks in.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed a biodiesel industry lawsuit challenging EPA's 2017 Renewable Fuel Standard volumes.

An ethanol company in Winnebago, Minnesota, announced plans to stop production at its 51-million-gallon plant.