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Iowa Republican Sens. Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst take issue with a claim by two House committee chairmen that American ambassador to Brazil Todd Chapman inappropriately suggested Brazilian leaders could help get President Donald Trump re-elected by changing ethanol trade...

A group of federal lawmakers is calling on the Trump administration to act on ethanol trade with Brazil, as a key deadline on Brazilian ethanol tariffs against the United States approaches on Aug. 31. Brazil is considering increasing those tariffs.

Just days after President Donald Trump said he would speak to EPA officials about the small-refinery exemptions program, the agency posts more pending requests on its dashboard.

During a roundtable in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said he would take a look at how the EPA is handling small-refinery exemptions.

As President Donald Trump tours storm damage in Iowa on Tuesday, Iowa agriculture and biofuels groups are asking him to make changes to how the EPA manages the Renewable Fuel Standard.

With the possibility of Brazil expanding tariffs on imports of ethanol from the United States, the Renewable Fuels Association has asked the U.S. trade representative to make it happen.

As federal lawmakers continue work on a possible COVID-19 economic relief package, members of the House Biofuels Caucus are asking House and Senate leaders to include specific language for biofuels relief.

Iowa Sens. Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst ask U.S. Department of Energy deputy secretary for transparency on small-refinery exemptions in the Renewable Fuel Standard.

In light of economic struggles in recent years in the ethanol industry, the state of Nebraska is examining whether it is doing enough to promote the industry.

Renewable Energy Group Inc. announced on Wednesday a new agreement to expand sales of a renewable diesel, biodiesel blend in California.

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has asked EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to take actions by October to expand E15.

As Congress begins to consider a new round of economic stimulus following the COVID-19 shutdown, one ethanol group has asked Senate leaders to include aid to biofuels producers.

The EPA now has 58 pending requests for small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard, after the agency on Thursday added six more to the list.

A new analysis from the Renewable Fuels Association shows ethanol producers could experience accumulated losses from the COVID-19 economic shutdown of more than $10 billion.

DTN's hypothetical ethanol plant has seen its margin improve by 20 cents since May.

Biofuels interest groups pointed to flaws in EPA's anti-backsliding study on the Renewable Fuel Standard, in official public comments filed with the agency this week.

Two ethanol companies and a number of agriculture and biofuels groups filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration's Safer Affordable Fuel Efficiency Vehicle Rule.

Ethanol industry officials plead with President Donald Trump to stand behind the Renewable Fuel Standard and reject recent new small-refinery exemption requests.

While governors and federal lawmakers in oil-producing states have asked the EPA for waivers to the Renewable Fuel Standard based on economic concerns, an environmental group has requested a waiver based on environmental concerns.

Ethanol groups lament EPA's 'lost opportunity' to update fuel's air-quality profile in new study.