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

In light of recent media reports the Biden administration may be considering granting relief to oil refiners from their Renewable Fuel Standard obligations, a group of 16 Democratic lawmakers pressed the administration to uphold the RFS.

A coalition of agriculture, biofuels and technology groups and companies asked leadership on two important House and Senate committees to begin work on a national clean-fuel policy aimed at achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

Federal lawmakers from Iowa asked President Joe Biden to include biofuels in any infrastructure legislation, in a letter sent on Tuesday.

The nation's largest ethanol producer Poet LLC may be close to reaching a deal to purchase all ethanol assets from Kansas-based Flint Hills Resources.

Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb vetoed legislation that would have labeled E15 pumps in the state.

Poet LLC announced it is expanding purified-alcohol production at an ethanol plant in Ohio and is launching a new label for renewable carbon dioxide and dry ice.

The largest farmers cooperative in the country has expanded the availability of E15 at 10 additional terminals in four states.

A group of 13 Republican senators have asked the EPA to grant general waivers to the Renewable Fuel Standard.

The EPA on Tuesday extended deadlines for obligated parties to comply with the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Year-round E15 sales will be allowed in the Kansas City metro area for the first time, as the EPA made final approval on Friday.

A number of senators have asked U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to provide financial assistance to biofuels producers.

New legislation introduced in the United States House of Representatives on Tuesday would provide more transparency and set tighter deadlines for small refiners seeking exemptions to the Renewable Fuels Standard. The bill also would require EPA to make quicker decisions when...

Drivers in the United Kingdom will be able to fill up with E10 blends come September, after the U.K. government announced it would be expanding the use of ethanol.

An ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska, sprung a leak of thin stillage and manure after a water pipe burst at the end of last week. The leak traveled more than 4 miles southeast of the plant.

In a letter to EPA Acting Administrator Jane Nishida, a group of Midwest senators asked the agency to take actions on the small-refinery exemption, E15 and the 2021 renewable volume obligations for the Renewable Fuel Standard.

A Peruvian competition tribunal ruled in favor of the United States in a challenge to Peru's 15-cent per-gallon duty placed in U.S. ethanol imports.

Green Plains Inc. continues its exit from the ethanol fuel business in selling a 65-million-gallon plant in Ord, Nebraska.

The Renewable Fuels Association filed an emergency petition with a federal court on Wednesday, in an attempt to prevent the EPA from issuing three small-refinery exemptions.