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Geoff Cooper, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, was among those during public comment to the EPA Science Advisory Board on Thursday seeking to push back on the board's initial draft statements that "the best available science" suggests there are "minimal...

A group of presidents from corn growers associations asked the U.S. treasury secretary to adopt a widely used carbon lifecycle model when establishing sustainable aviation fuel tax credits.

Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper expressed concern to EPA Administrator Michael Regan about the work of a Renewable Fuel Standard scientific advisory board, in a letter to the agency on Thursday.

Growth Energy motions to intervene in one of several small-refinery exemptions petitions cases in a federal appeals court.

The chief executive officer of the American Coalition for Ethanol told President Joe Biden on Monday that states should not have to sue to force EPA to grant a waiver to eight Midwest states to allow permanent year-round E15 sales beginning in 2024.

A group of more than 20 state-level corn and ethanol associations asked EPA Administrator Michael Regan to finish up work on a request by eight Midwest governors to allow for year-round E15 sales in those states.

The states of Nebraska and Iowa filed a federal lawsuit on Monday after the EPA missed the deadline to finalize a rule to allow year-round E15 sales permanently in eight Midwest states.

Four refineries have petitioned federal appeals courts for review of EPA's decision to reject 26 of 28 pending small-refinery exemption requests to the Renewable Fuel Standard on July 14.

The Renewable Fuels Association calls on the EPA to finalize a petition to allow year-round E15 sales in eight states starting in 2024.

New legislation offered in the U.S. Senate would put flexible-fuel vehicles on a level playing field with electric vehicles on carbon emissions.

Ethanol interest group Growth Energy filed a brief in support of the EPA in a legal case challenging recent agency actions on the Renewable Fuel Standard.

The EPA on Friday updated its dashboard online announcing various actions on a number of pending Renewable Fuel Standard small-refinery waiver requests.

Ethanol interest group Growth Energy told a House subcommittee on Thursday that corn-based ethanol should be considered as an advanced biofuel.

In the final Renewable Fuel Standard volumes rule released on Wednesday the EPA explains its rationale for keeping biomass-based diesel volumes lower than what the industry says it is capable of producing.

With the EPA set to release the final Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2023, 2024 and 2025 in the coming days, a group of 75 industry groups have asked President Joe Biden to increase those volumes for biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuels.

The state of Nebraska is enacting a law to require E15 sales at new gasoline stations by Jan. 1, 2024, and at existing stations in January 2028.

The Biden administration may be dropping or delaying its electric-vehicle proposal from the multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard sent to the Office of Management and Budget.

Ethanol groups this week told the EPA during a series of public hearings on a proposed emissions rule that would require the increased use of electric vehicles in the U.S. during the next decade, that the agency should adopt a technology-neutral approach.

South Bend Ethanol LLC in Indiana has new ownership, as Verbio North America Holdings Corp. announced it closed on the purchase of the plant and plans a $230 million expansion into renewable natural gas production.

The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers last week called on the eight Midwest states to rescind their requests for Clean Air Act waivers to sell E15 permanently year-round. AFPM points to a study that purports to show the move would be costly to the states.