Ethanol Blog

The EPA on Friday updated its dashboard online announcing various actions on a number of pending Renewable Fuel Standard small-refinery waiver requests.

Ethanol interest group Growth Energy told a House subcommittee on Thursday that corn-based ethanol should be considered as an advanced biofuel.

In the final Renewable Fuel Standard volumes rule released on Wednesday the EPA explains its rationale for keeping biomass-based diesel volumes lower than what the industry says it is capable of producing.

With the EPA set to release the final Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2023, 2024 and 2025 in the coming days, a group of 75 industry groups have asked President Joe Biden to increase those volumes for biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuels.

The state of Nebraska is enacting a law to require E15 sales at new gasoline stations by Jan. 1, 2024, and at existing stations in January 2028.

The Biden administration may be dropping or delaying its electric-vehicle proposal from the multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard sent to the Office of Management and Budget.

Ethanol groups this week told the EPA during a series of public hearings on a proposed emissions rule that would require the increased use of electric vehicles in the U.S. during the next decade, that the agency should adopt a technology-neutral approach.

South Bend Ethanol LLC in Indiana has new ownership, as Verbio North America Holdings Corp. announced it closed on the purchase of the plant and plans a $230 million expansion into renewable natural gas production.

The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers last week called on the eight Midwest states to rescind their requests for Clean Air Act waivers to sell E15 permanently year-round. AFPM points to a study that purports to show the move would be costly to the states.

The EPA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services are conducting an Endangered Species Act review of the Renewable Fuel Standard. Once the review is completed the Center for Biological Diversity has agreed to drop its lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...

As a result of what was one of the largest Renewable Fuel Standard tax credit conspiracies ever perpetrated, a federal court sentenced five people from Utah and California for a combined 83 years in prison.

Six ethanol and agriculture interest groups said in a letter to President Joe Biden on Wednesday that without a waiver from the administration E15 sales will cease by June 1.

Archer Daniels Midland asked a federal court to dismiss one of two ethanol market lawsuits filed against the company. Midwest Renewable Energy LLC filed an amended complaint after the same court dismissed the first lawsuit.

The Japanese government made a rule change this week that will allow ethanol produced in the U.S. to fully access the country's fuel market.

Gasoline retailers and ethanol industry officials have been meeting with federal lawmakers and Biden administration officials this week in Washington, D.C., making a case for an emergency waiver to allow E15 sales to continue this summer.

A recent poll conducted on behalf of the Renewable Fuels Association found national support for allowing E15 sales year-round.

The Renewable Fuels Association pressed EPA Administrator Michael Regan to grant a waiver to allow E15 sales to continue beginning on June 1. Without a waiver, E15 would not be available at the pump throughout the summer.

The Renewable Fuels Association pressed EPA Administrator Michael Regan to grant a waiver to allow E15 sales to continue beginning on June 1. Without a waiver, E15 would not be available at the pump throughout the summer.

Ethanol groups asked EPA to allow E15 sales to continue this summer during a public hearing on a proposal to make the sales permanent in eight states beginning in 2024.

Canadian biodiesel and renewable diesel producers are bracing for a change in the blender's tax credit to take effect in the U.S. The Inflation Reduction Act changed the credit to a producer's credit only available to U.S. producers.