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Ethanol: EPA Updates RFS Website to Improve Transparency
EPA has updated the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program website to increase transparency surrounding the program. The updated website includes new data and information for both stakeholders and the public. […]
Biofuel: Facing Challenges – Midwest, California, Mississippi – DTN
Just a few blocks from the commotion and crowds at the Global Climate Action Summit, biofuel advocates gathered Thursday to champion more low-carbon fuel standards that could take the country’s […]
Ethanol Demand Destruction and Small Refinery Exemptions
Small refinery exemptions (SREs) represent the latest controversy to engulf the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). When the U.S. Congress first created the RFS in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 it […]
Ag, Ethanol Groups to Trump – We Need Relief Now, Not Later – DTN
Leaders of several agriculture and ethanol groups on Wednesday appealed to President Donald Trump to immediately approve year-round sales of E15 and to reallocate Renewable Fuel Standard small-refinery waivers to […]
Biofuel: Sorghum Gets Heads Up from EPA – Ethanol Extraction
EPA has approved sorghum oil as an eligible feedstock under the Renewable Fuel Standard. The EPA’s announcement marks a significant step toward leveling the playing field for ethanol plants extracting […]
Biodiesel: RFS Waivers – Huge Losses for Farmers – DTN
EPA had not planned to address small-refinery waivers in a public hearing on Wednesday, but farmers and biofuels groups had other ideas as they unloaded on the agency. EPA is […]
EPA 2019 RFS Proposed Rulemaking: What You See Is Not What You Get
On June 26, 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its proposed rule for establishing the volume obligations under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) (EPA Proposed Rule). If finalized, the […]
EPA Acting Admin. Wheeler Plans to Reign in Regulations – DTN
Doors at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., were open to the press on Wednesday, as new Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler addressed agency employees about the future of the EPA. While […]
Ethanol Plant Margins Improve – DTN
A rise in ethanol prices and a drop in corn prices since the end of May helped boost the net margin for DTN’s hypothetical 50-million-gallon ethanol plant in South Dakota. […]
EPA: Pruitt is Out – Sigh of Relief from Farmers and Biofuel Producers – DTN
Scott Pruitt is out as EPA administrator after the embattled agency head tendered his resignation to President Donald Trump on Thursday. Trump made the announcement via Twitter on Thursday afternoon: […]
