Ethanol Blog

The Trump administration launched a trade investigation into Brazil's practices, including increased ethanol tariffs, after Brazil raised duties on U.S. ethanol imports.

Biofuels groups praise EPA's "strongest-ever" RFS proposal, while urging proper handling of small-refinery exemptions to maintain the 15-billion-gallon commitment.

The House passed the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill," extending the 45Z Clean Fuels tax credit through 2029 with provisions favoring North American feedstocks and removing penalties for corn ethanol.

A federal court overturned a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2024 rule that undervalued ethanol in fuel economy calculations, siding with corn and sorghum producers who argued the methodology was flawed.

The Renewable Fuels Association urges Trump to ease E15 regulations amid Iran's threat to close Strait of Hormuz, which could disrupt global oil supply and raise prices.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., remanded the first Renewable Fuels Standard set rule back to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Gevo agreed to sell its Minnesota ethanol plant for $7 million while retaining assets for potential sustainable aviation fuel production, while the new owner plans to restart production.

The Trump administration reportedly is considering action on backlogged small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Conestoga Energy has completed drilling its first carbon capture well at a Kansas ethanol plant, designed to store 150,000 metric tons of CO2 annually.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed three resolutions to end California's electric-vehicle mandate.

Chevron Inc. expects to lay off 70 employees at Renewable Energy Group's biofuels facility in Ames, Iowa, effective on June 18, 2025.

With the state of California expected to lose about 17% of its refining capacity, the door might swing open wider for the ethanol industry to cash in on E85.

Although sustainable aviation fuel holds potential economic promise for rural America so far, the Trump administration has shown little interest.

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators asked the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to set a multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard proposal to provide certainty to the biofuels market.

A group of executives from eight small-refinery companies asked the Trump administration to be involved in any additional meetings on the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard, in a letter sent to the White House at the end of last week.

Although legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives to make E15 sales permanent nationally year-round, a bipartisan group of senators on Thursday asked the Trump administration to grant a temporary waiver for the upcoming driving...

The Trump administration announced on Monday it had granted $537 million for 543 biofuels blending projects across 29 states, ahead of a visit to Iowa by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins.

Biofuels and agriculture interest groups asked U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to not only finalize Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2026 immediately but to set biomass-based diesel volumes to at least 5.25 billion gallons.

Fort Pierce, Florida, resident Royce Gillham was sentenced to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and filing false claims as part of a scheme that generated $7 million in fraudulent renewable...

In two separate letters to leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, a group of nearly 9,000 farmers and attorneys general from 16 states ask Congress to pass legislation to make E15 sales permanent across the country.