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Friday, April 11, 2025
WASHINGTON, Mar. 16, 2017 - President Trump is releasing budget proposals this morning that will call for deep spending cuts across the federal government, including at USDA, EPA and other agencies. Trump’s targets at USDA will include the nation's flagship international food aid program, Food for Peace.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 16, 2017 - In order to extend the Reid vapor pressure (RVP) waiver to ethanol blends above 10 percent, senators Deb Fischer, R-Neb., Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have introduced the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act.
WASHINGTON, March 2, 2017 -- Fuels America, a coalition of biofuels advocates, says it has “severed ties” with the Renewable Fuels Association, accusing the group of siding with billionaire investor and refinery owner Carl Icahn in a plan – denied by the White House -- that would “permanently destabilize the Renewable Fuel Standard.”
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1, 2017 - U.S. ethanol production set a record of 15.33 billion gallons (bg) in 2016, according to data released Tuesday by the Energy Information Administration.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1, 2017 - The U.S. ethanol industry added $42.1 billion to the nation’s gross domestic product and supported nearly 340,000 jobs in 2016, according to a new study released by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2017 – Talk of a “not negotiable” executive order that would change the point of obligation under the Renewable Fuel Standard has sent the renewable fuels industry in a tizzy.
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21, 2017 – With farm incomes on the decline and corn stocks at a 30-year high, there is a “sense of unease spreading across rural America,” noted Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen during his keynote address today.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2017 - During a campaign stop in Iowa last year, then GOP candidate Donald Trump made it very clear that he supported the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). But as president, a number of his key advisors and cabinet members have strong ties to the oil industry. And that has some RFS supporters worried
