Ethanol
With just eight days left in EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s term, RFA president and CEO Geoff Cooper weighs in on worst-case scenarios and his optimism about the new administration.
Doug Parker, the previous director of the EPA’s criminal investigation division and now president of the consultancy Earth and Water Strategies LLC, said the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program is vulnerable to scams that have bilked victims out of nearly $1 billion so far.
In a letter, President Trump dipping into the industry’s battle with independent oil refiners over whether parts of a federal mandate should be changed.
Nine members of the House of Representatives have pressed U.S. Trade Ambassador Michael Froman to push for reduced tariffs on U.S. energy products including ethanol, according to a letter dated March 21.
First Biorefinery Demonstration Facility, Ethanol Share to Rise by 2035
E85 Sales Shoot Upward in Iowa, Indiana Adds a Facility, From Pennycress to Biodiesel, A Pump First for New Jersey.
Tastes Like Chicken, Ethanol Industry Shifts Sideways, Scientists Support Biodiesel.
The White House has dropped a plan to provide funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to oil refiners that are denied exemptions from the nation’s biofuel regulations.
Watch live at noon Central - NCGA President Kevin Ross on the work still left to be done on the Renewable Fuels Standard after EPA has denied most “gap year” waivers.
U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed that dozens of oil refiner requests for retroactive waivers from U.S. biofuel laws be denied .
Biofuel groups celebrated a victory in winning most of their demands in a drawn-out fight over refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
While he says soybeans are the most important, Nicholson outlined a handful that he sees as equally important to U.S. agriculture.
12 U.S. Senators sent a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler to cease issuing Renewable Identification Number (RIN) waivers also known as “hardship” waivers.
EPA on Friday granted 31 more controversial waivers allowing refiners for forgo blending requirements of the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS).
For the past two years the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been issuing small refinery hardship waivers, which allow the awarded refiners to forgo blending ethanol with their fuels.
When President Trump visited an Iowa ethanol plant in June, farmers attending the event took the opportunity to help President Trump understand how RIN waivers are undermining the RFS.
In Washington Clash of Industries, King Corn Trounces Big Oil
The Trump administration is considering a policy change that could allow an extra billion gallons or more of biofuel each year to qualify toward a U.S. mandate, lowering costs for refiners at the expense of ethanol producers, according to people briefed on the discussions.
Buying bankrupt plants on cheap to become No. 5 U.S. producer.
During remarks at the Farm Journal Forum, he says he’s “bullish” on ethanol industry and says the opportunity for agriculture is “unlimited.”
Some who were quoted in a recent Associated Press investigative report on ethanol are saying that they were misled and misrepresented.
‘The real question is what happens in 2013, when the ethanol blending obligation increases to 13.8 billion gallons.” --Purdue University
Expect corn usage and prices to take a hit if Congress doesn’t make a move.
The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to eliminate billions of dollars in support for the U.S. ethanol industry.
Former President’s warning comes amid food price increases.
EPA released target volumes for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program for 2019 as anticipated, earlier Friday, holding conventional volumes at 15 billion gallons.
Ethanol prices are in a free fall due to fewer people driving and a recent price war. As some ethanol plants shutter production, facilities may start producing for DDGs to meet the possible upcoming Chinese demand.
Gas prices are falling, but few can take advantage of the low prices as “social distancing” and increasingly stringent COVID-19 prevention restrictions keep people off of the roads and ethanol demand could fall.