Ethanol Blog

Ethanol, refining interests continue to bend EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler's ear on where they stand on the small-refinery waiver program in the Renewable Fuel Standard.

A plea agreement is reached in a $511 million biofuels fraud case, as a result of a federal indictment filed against a Utah biodiesel company.

Small-refinery companies are threatening to sue the EPA for its delay in making a decision on 38 pending applications for small-refinery waivers to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Green Biologics announces it is closing acetone and butanol production at a former Minnesota ethanol plant.

Refining interests tell EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler not to share small refineries' confidential business information with USDA officials.

The U.S. Department of Commerce released a proposal to cut countervailing duties on biodiesel imported from Argentina from about 72% to 10%.

Flint Hills Resources is closing a 50-million-gallon biodiesel plant in Beatrice, Nebraska, pointing to a fall in soybean prices as a reason.

A three-year extension of the biodiesel blenders tax credit is one of a number of provisions in a tax package passed in the House Ways and Means committee on Thursday.

The National Corn Growers Association launched an advertising campaign aimed at convincing President Donald Trump to make changes to the small-refinery waivers program.

Ethanol producers Green Plains Inc., announced on Tuesday it was suspending quarterly cash dividends in light of struggles in the ethanol industry.

Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on Friday attempts to provide more transparency to the small refinery waivers process at EPA.

On a tour of an ethanol plant in Iowa on Tuesday, President Donald Trump indicated he would look into the EPA's practice of granting small refinery waivers to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

A group of 22 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are calling for an immediate extension of the biodiesel blenders tax credit that expired at the beginning of 2018.

Part of a biofuels waivers court case was transferred to another court, as part of a ruling from a federal court in Washington, D.C.

Crude oil and oil products futures were posting massive losses Thursday morning.

Agriculture groups have asked federal lawmakers to extend the biodiesel tax credit that expired in 2017.

A federal court in Washington, D.C., rejected a biofuels interest group's request for an injunction on small refinery waivers.

Cellulosic ethanol produced by corn-ethanol plants in Iowa and Nebraska now qualifies for the state of California's low-carbon fuel standard.

Thirty-five members of the U.S. House of Representatives asked EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to stop granting small refinery waivers to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Fifteen United States senators have asked EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to knock down Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for corn-based ethanol, in expected reset.