Ethanol Blog

Biodiesel interest groups have appealed to President Donald Trump to ensure a review of antidumping and countervailing duties against Argentinian biodiesel imports is thorough.

A late tax-extenders package released by the House Ways and Means Committee on Monday includes a longer-term extension of the tax credit for biodiesel production, which eventually lowers and phases out the tax credit at the end of 2024.

An Iowa-based joint venture in Brazil announced it has launched construction of a second corn-based ethanol plant in Mato Grosso.

Struggling margins in the ethanol industry led to Green Plains, Inc.'s decision to close an ethanol plant in Hopewell, Virginia.

A German company announced plans on Thursday to convert a cellulosic ethanol plant in Iowa to a renewable natural gas facility.

The government of Argentina says it has made changes to its export tax regime, after the United States slapped duties on biodiesel imports from Argentina and Indonesia.

The current margin condition for the ethanol industry has led to companies cutting production.

Add a Nebraska cooperative to the list of fuel outlets expanding E15 availability, as Cooperative Producers Inc., is offering the 85% gasoline, 15% ethanol blend at a cooperative in Funk, Nebraska.

GROWMARK Energy is offering pre-blended E15 at terminals in the Midwest.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota,-based POET has announced plans to build an 80-million-gallon plant in Shelbyville, Indiana.

With India and Brazil stepping up efforts to produce more ethanol locally, the face of ethanol exports from the United States continues to change.

University of Illinois agriculture economist Scott Irwin told DTN the industry's margin woes caused by a number of things.

A group of 19 members of the United States House of Representatives have asked EPA to stop issuing small refinery waivers to the Renewable Fuel Standard

Iowa and Illinois representatives ask President Donald Trump to approve year-round E15.

Just ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to Iowa next week, a group of senators is asking for him to not allow year-round E15 sales.

Forty-six federal lawmakers are pressing for passage of a multi-year extension of the biodiesel blenders credit in the U.S. House of Representatives.

POET expands an ethanol plant in Ohio, as a group of federal lawmakers are pressing on EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler to make changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard incluidng E15.

Rep. David Young, R-Iowa, and Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., introduced the "Restoring Our Commitment to Renewable Fuels Act," which would require the EPA to reallocate biofuels gallons waived through small refinery waivers.

A new proposal from the California Air Resources Board draws opposition from biofuels and environmental groups alike.

The EPA and the U.S. Department of Energy have missed deadlines on ethanol groups' Freedom of Information Act requests.