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Attorneys general in Nebraska and Iowa have given EPA 60 days to change the effective date of a proposed E15 rule from 2024 to 2023, in response to the petitions of eight states to allow E15 to be sold permanently.

The state of Arizona will now allow the sale of E15 in the Greater Phoenix area when a final rule takes effect on March 15.

A study by Life Cycle Associates found the Renewable Fuel Standard has cut greenhouse gas emissions by 1.2 billion metric tons since 2008.

A group of U.S. senators has asked President Joe Biden to address Brazil's recent reimplementation of an ethanol import tariff on U.S. ethanol, during a scheduled meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Washington on Friday.

A bipartisan group of 31 federal lawmakers asked EPA Administrator Michael Regan and the Office of Management and Budget to respond to a request by nine Midwest states to allow year-round E15 sales.

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.