Ethanol Blog

Golden Grain Energy, LLC, will soon begin selling cellulosic ethanol in the California market.

The state of Minnesota reports E15 sales are higher than they were last year, as a result of the EPA lifting summer restrictions on sales.

The state of California changed a state regulation to allow for underground storage of B20, a 20% blend of biodiesel and petroleum products.

Groups ask federal court to proceed with a pending lawsuit challenging EPA's issuance of small-refinery waivers.

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.