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Poet LLC announced it is expanding purified-alcohol production at an ethanol plant in Ohio and is launching a new label for renewable carbon dioxide and dry ice.

The largest farmers cooperative in the country has expanded the availability of E15 at 10 additional terminals in four states.

A group of 13 Republican senators have asked the EPA to grant general waivers to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

The EPA on Tuesday extended deadlines for obligated parties to comply with the Renewable Fuel Standard.

With Michael Regan now sworn in as the new EPA administrator, biofuels and petroleum interests argue their sides on the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Year-round E15 sales will be allowed in the Kansas City metro area for the first time, as the EPA made final approval on Friday.

A number of senators have asked U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to provide financial assistance to biofuels producers.

New legislation introduced in the United States House of Representatives on Tuesday would provide more transparency and set tighter deadlines for small refiners seeking exemptions to the Renewable Fuels Standard. The bill also would require EPA to make quicker decisions when...

Drivers in the United Kingdom will be able to fill up with E10 blends come September, after the U.K. government announced it would be expanding the use of ethanol.

While members of the Congressional Biofuel Caucus introduced legislation to provide more transparency to the small-refinery exemptions program, EPA closed a comment period on request for general exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

An ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska, sprung a leak of thin stillage and manure after a water pipe burst at the end of last week. The leak traveled more than 4 miles southeast of the plant.

In a letter to EPA Acting Administrator Jane Nishida, a group of Midwest senators asked the agency to take actions on the small-refinery exemption, E15 and the 2021 renewable volume obligations for the Renewable Fuel Standard.

A Peruvian competition tribunal ruled in favor of the United States in a challenge to Peru's 15-cent per-gallon duty placed in U.S. ethanol imports.

Green Plains Inc. continues its exit from the ethanol fuel business in selling a 65-million-gallon plant in Ord, Nebraska.

As the Biden administration is taking steps to decarbonize the federal vehicle fleet with electric vehicles, a new study finds corn ethanol reduces greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum gasoline.

The Renewable Fuels Association filed an emergency petition with a federal court on Wednesday, in an attempt to prevent the EPA from issuing three small-refinery exemptions.

Members of the House biofuels caucus ask President Donald Trump in a letter to reject 32 pending requests for 2019 small-refinery exemptions.

The Renewable Fuels Association on Tuesday told EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler that the group would take legal action if the agency approved small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard for 2019.

Ethanol industry and federal lawmakers ask the incoming Biden administration to make changes to and uphold the Renewable Fuel Standard.

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal from refining companies on concerns about EPA's handling of the small-refinery exemption program.