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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.

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...

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.

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.

Members of the House biofuels caucus ask President Donald Trump in a letter to reject 32 pending requests for 2019 small-refinery exemptions.

The Renewable Fuels Association on Tuesday told EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler that the group would take legal action if the agency approved small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard for 2019.

Valero alleges in lawsuit Cypress, Texas,-based Sundive Commodity Group, LLC hasn't delivered on millions of renewable identification numbers, or RINs.

Ingredion Inc. is closing its 45-million-gallon ethanol plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, citing an inability to achieve profitability.

The EPA and United Refining Company reached a settlement on an outstanding small-refinery exemptions court case.

The USDA has been authorized to provide financial relief to biofuels producers, as part of legislation passed by Congress on Monday.

Omaha-based Green Plains Inc. announced it has sold a 100-million-gallon ethanol plant in Hereford, Texas.