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Although Clean Air Act deadline came and went in July 2022 for EPA to respond to states' request to take action to allow year-round E15 sales, the agency has yet to act after 270 days. Attorneys general are now giving the EPA until the end of January.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced on Thursday the awarding of $118 million to 17 biofuels projects across the country, including many for sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, algae-based fuels, as well as a handful of projects to improve corn-ethanol emissions.

Iowa native and former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta, U.S. Medal of Honor recipient, is scheduled to speak on March 1 during the National Ethanol Conference in Orlando, Florida.

Missouri Gov. Michael L. Parson filed an official request with the EPA last week to make a change to federal law for the state to allow permanent year-round E15 sales.

Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor on Monday asked EPA Administrator Michael Regan to schedule an in-person public hearing in the Midwest on the agency's latest Renewable Fuel Standard proposal.

Both sides of Congress have introduced legislation to restore year-round E15 sales, after a companion to a U.S. Senate bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives this week.

A coalition of more than 250 agriculture, biofuels and oil groups are applying a full-court press on Congressional leaders to pass legislation to allow permanent year-round E15 sales.

Biofuels groups tell the IRS to adopt the Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory's GREET greenhouse gas lifecycle emissions model in a proposed rule for a new clean fuel production tax credit created by the Inflation Reduction Act.

While the ethanol industry reacted enthusiastically to a multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard proposal covering 2023 to 2025, the biodiesel industry expressed disappointment with EPA's proposed volumes that don't match current production.

A bipartisan group of 15 U.S. senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would allow year-round E15 sales nationally.

With Congress just weeks away from the end of the lame-duck session, several agriculture, biofuels and petroleum interest groups ask leaders of the House and Senate to pass legislation to restore permanent year-round E15 sales.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration said ethanol blends rates for summer 2022 hit record high at 10.5%.

The EPA now expects to release a Renewable Fuel Standard volume proposal for 2023 by Nov. 30, as part of a consent decree with ethanol interest group Growth Energy.

The EPA granted approval to the state of Nebraska to conduct a second phase of an ongoing E30 demonstration on state vehicles.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators asked the EPA to set corn-ethanol volumes above 15 billion gallons in the Renewable Fuel Standard, in a letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan.

A new study commissioned by Growth Energy found that if EPA allowed year-round E15 sales across the country, drivers would save billions of dollars annually in fuel costs.

Growth Energy and the Renewable Fuels Association each have asked a federal court to allow the groups to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit that seeks to vacate EPA's June 2022 Renewable Fuel Standard final rule.

Growth Energy has asked a federal court to allow the group to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit that seeks to vacate EPA's June 2022 Renewable Fuel Standard final rule.

An environmental group asked a federal appeals court to toss EPA's rule finalizing Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2020 to 2022, in a motion filed this week, arguing the agency hasn't conducted a required Endangered Species Act review.

Green Plains Inc., Tallgrass and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today announced they have been awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance sustainable aviation fuel technology as part of the federal agency's effort to support the development of...