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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.

A Democratic group of congressional lawmakers asked the Biden administration to expand Renewable Fuel Standard volumes, in a letter to the president.

Eighty-seven ethanol and grain companies ask President Joe Biden to stand behind the Renewable Fuel Standard.

The National Biodiesel Board has made a second request for a meeting with EPA Administrator Michael Regan to talk about how biodiesel could have immediate benefits to health and climate.

A federal appeals court on Thursday denied a petition for a rehearing on its ruling that could end year-round sales of E15.

The chief executive officer of the American Coalition for Ethanol on Wednesday asked the chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to hold a hearing on the so-called "Next Generation Fuels Act of 2021."

Ethanol groups pressed the EPA on Wednesday to make high-octane fuels like ethanol part of a national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in light-duty vehicles.

A group of 17 senators asked EPA Administrator Michael Regan on Monday to reduce Renewable Fuel Standard volumes, one week after a report surfaced that the Biden administration was prepared to make reductions.

The leader of the American Coalition for Ethanol asked President Joe Biden to bolster the Renewable Fuel Standard, in a letter sent to the administration this week.

A group of Midwest senators have requested a meeting with President Joe Biden and his cabinet to talk about biofuels' role in the administration.

Seventy ethanol companies that are members of the Renewable Fuels Association pledge to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 or earlier, in letter to President Joe Biden.

The leaders of the Governors' Biofuels Coalition is making a case to the Biden administration to make room for high-octane fuels in the Safe Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles rule.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied Growth Energy's challenge that biofuels gallons lost to small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard should be restored.

House members introduce bill to give EPA authority to approve year-round E15 sales after federal court struck down E15 rule.

A number of agriculture, ethanol and environmental interest groups have asked President Joe Biden to include a high-octane gasoline standard in an ongoing rulemaking on light-duty vehicles.

The American Petroleum Institute is pressing the EPA to reduce Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for expected proposals for 2021 and 2022.

Although the Supreme Court came down on the side of refining interests in a small-refinery exemptions case, the biofuels industry pins its hopes on the Biden administration granting fewer exemptions than did the Trump administration.

A number of biofuels and agriculture groups asked the Biden administration on Thursday to reject claims by oil refiners that they need relief from the Renewable Fuel Standard.