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In comments submitted to the EPA on Monday, three ethanol groups called on the agency to expand E85 use factors for future model year vehicles.

California-based Pacific Ethanol Inc., announces it will sell or repurpose three ethanol plants and change its company name.

POET LLC is expanding its production of hand sanitizer, breaking ground on a new facility at an ethanol plant in Alexandria, Indiana.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett told a Senate committee on Tuesday how she would approach environmental cases if confirmed to the Supreme Court.

New legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would set a high-octane standard that would benefit ethanol producers.

Iowa Republican Sen. Charles Grassley said on Tuesday he believes President Donald Trump has garnered support from rural America by rejected retroactive small-refinery exemption requests to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Ethanol and agriculture industry groups continue to work for free trade with Brazil, after the country extended for 90 days its tariff-rate quota on ethanol imports on Monday.

President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Saturday his administration will allow the sale of E15 in existing E10 pumps.

Iowa Republican Sens. Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst take issue with a claim by two House committee chairmen that American ambassador to Brazil Todd Chapman inappropriately suggested Brazilian leaders could help get President Donald Trump re-elected by changing ethanol trade...

A group of federal lawmakers is calling on the Trump administration to act on ethanol trade with Brazil, as a key deadline on Brazilian ethanol tariffs against the United States approaches on Aug. 31. Brazil is considering increasing those tariffs.

Just days after President Donald Trump said he would speak to EPA officials about the small-refinery exemptions program, the agency posts more pending requests on its dashboard.

During a roundtable in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said he would take a look at how the EPA is handling small-refinery exemptions.

As President Donald Trump tours storm damage in Iowa on Tuesday, Iowa agriculture and biofuels groups are asking him to make changes to how the EPA manages the Renewable Fuel Standard.

With the possibility of Brazil expanding tariffs on imports of ethanol from the United States, the Renewable Fuels Association has asked the U.S. trade representative to make it happen.

As federal lawmakers continue work on a possible COVID-19 economic relief package, members of the House Biofuels Caucus are asking House and Senate leaders to include specific language for biofuels relief.

Iowa Sens. Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst ask U.S. Department of Energy deputy secretary for transparency on small-refinery exemptions in the Renewable Fuel Standard.

In light of economic struggles in recent years in the ethanol industry, the state of Nebraska is examining whether it is doing enough to promote the industry.

Renewable Energy Group Inc. announced on Wednesday a new agreement to expand sales of a renewable diesel, biodiesel blend in California.

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has asked EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to take actions by October to expand E15.

As Congress begins to consider a new round of economic stimulus following the COVID-19 shutdown, one ethanol group has asked Senate leaders to include aid to biofuels producers.