In Washington, Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer (IA-01) and Congresswoman Kendra Horn (OK-05) led a Democratic caucus letter to House leadership urging action on extension of the biodiesel tax credit. Specifically, the lawmakers are asking for extensions of the biodiesel, alternative fuel vehicle refueling property, and second generation biofuel producer tax credits. In the letter addressed to House […]
In Washington, the RFS Power Coalition applauded the passage of H.R. 3055 (116), the Senate’s Interior Appropriations bill. The Interior-EPA portion of the spending package includes a provision led by Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) requiring the EPA to take swift action on existing eRIN applications: Electric Pathway. The Committee notes the backlog of applications under […]
In Washington, a broad coalition of biofuel and farm advocates today sent a letter to the White House calling on President Trump to fix a flawed proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency, which “fails in its mission to reinvigorate farm economies and reopen biofuel plants across America’s heartland.” The letter was signed by 60 organizations, […]
In Brazil, Argentina’s Clarín newspaper reports that the country’s biodiesel industry needs to invest $500 million in order to achieve B15 by 2023 as planned. The country’s oil and renewable energy agency recently released a study confirming the shift to B15 from the current B11 following technical studies that tested the fuel’s stability and impacts […]
In Washington, DC, the Renewable Fuels Association submitted a statement to “correct the record on the impact of small refinery exemptions” that it didn’t get to when testifying last week before a House Energy & Commerce Committee subcommittee on the devastating impact of small refinery exemptions (SREs) on the U.S. ethanol industry. “My testimony described […]
In Iowa, Radio Iowa reports that the Siouxland Energy ethanol plant that had been idled due to negative crushing margins has come back online at 50% capacity thanks to the California Air Resources Board lowering the ethanol produced at the plant’s carbon intensity score by 10%, enough to allow trade into the lucrative California market. […]
In Washington, 23 Republican representatives from Midwest states sent a letter to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency asking him to come up with a new proposal to compensate ethanol producers, and therefore farmers who have suffered from low corn prices due to a lack of ethanol demand, because they don’t feel recent proposals […]
In Washington, EPA will hold a public hearing on Oct. 30, 2019 followed by a 30-day comment period from the date of the hearing to receive public input on the supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking seeking additional comment on the recently proposed rule to establish the cellulosic biofuel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel volumes […]
In Washington, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst says she is putting the pressure on the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to follow through with President Trump’s promises to make up for gallons lost from small refinery hardship waivers, but she is clear that if he doesn’t follow through then she is going to ask for […]
In Washington, coalition of renewable fuel and agricultural trade organizations filed a petition Tuesday afternoon with the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, challenging the process by which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exempted certain unknown small refineries from their respective Renewable Fuel Standard obligations for 2018. The coalition includes the […]
