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A South Dakota ethanol company is asking the state's congressional delegation to press EPA to take a look at the viability of E30.

The Renewable Fuels Association recently provided written testimony for the record pertaining to the Surface Transportation Board hearing on Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service.

A Growth Energy official has asked the chairman of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to help fix rail-service problems ethanol producers are facing.

With year-round E15 sales to end starting on June 1, at least three states have asked for emergency waivers from the EPA to continue those sales in 2022.

A bipartisan group of 29 members of the U.S. House of Representatives' biofuels caucus asked the Biden administration to restore and make permanent year-round E15 sales, and to draw back on a proposal to retroactively cut 2020 biofuels volumes from the Renewable Fuel...

The head of ClearFlame Engine Technologies said his company's ethanol diesel technology will get a trial run with John Deere in agriculture equipment pilot this year. In addition, the company is exploring viability of using the same technology to power portable electricity generators...

The amount of E85 sold in California jumped by about 55% from 2020 to 2021, according to the latest information from the California Air Resources Board.

More than 1,000 U.S. farmers and other biofuel supporters signed a letter asking President Joe Biden to turn to expanded biofuels production and to make E15 available year-round to address rising pump prices.

A bipartisan group of senators asked President Joe Biden on Wednesday to take action to restore year-round E15, in response to rising gasoline prices.

Members of congress from Iowa asked EPA Administrator Michael Regan to look for ways to grow the production of biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel in response to growing concerns about rising gasoline prices.

Agriculture and biofuels interest groups asked the Biden administration to provide year-round E15 availability in response to rising gasoline prices.

In two separate petitions filed Monday, corn and soybean associations from a number of states asked a federal appeals court to set aside EPA's GHG emissions standards rule for 2023 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards.

As the Biden administration reportedly is looking for ways to lower gasoline prices, Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor on Tuesday asked the White House to restore year-round E15 sales.

With the end of a Renewable Fuel Standard public-comment period approaching a bipartisan group of 14 U.S. senators on Monday asked the EPA to make changes to a controversial proposal that would make cuts to corn ethanol.

Archer Daniels Midland plans to build a carbon dioxide pipeline to connect two of its ethanol plants in Iowa to a carbon sequestration site in Illinois.

During a public hearing Tuesday, agriculture and biofuels groups asked EPA to not make cuts to the 2020 Renewable Fuel Standard volumes.

Agriculture and biofuels groups have a mixed reaction to EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard proposal released on Tuesday.

The deadline for EPA to finalize Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2022 has passed, now the biofuels industry waits.

The EPA on Friday rejected one small-refinery exemption petition to the Renewable Fuel Standard, leaving 65 requests pending.

The U.S. biofuels industry would receive grants and tax credits as part of the latest draft of the so-called "Build Back Better Act" working its way through Congress.