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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 16, 2024
Waivers that refiners obtained from EPA eliminated demand for 1.12 billion gallons of ethanol last year, undermining requirements of the Renewable Fuel Standard, says Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.
President Donald Trump delivered welcome news to supporters of the Renewable Fuel Standard on Thursday, confirming that the administration is seriously considering a waiver for year-round E15 sales.
The biofuels and fossil fuels industries are aggressively jockeying for position in the run-up to 2022 when the U.S. EPA will have broad discretion to re-write the rules for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which mandates the use of ethanol, biodiesel and other biofuels in the nation's transportation fuel supply.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said in Iowa Friday that if the Clean Air Act allows his agency to let E15 to be sold year round, then a waiver to do just that is certain to follow.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - More than 1,000 fuel stations around the country are offering fuel with 15 percent ethanol. That’s more than twice as many as a year ago.
JOHNSTON, IOWA, Oct. 4, 2017 - For the second year in a row, gasoline retailers across Iowa are participating in the Pink at the Pump campaign during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2017 – As procedural activity on a bill that would expand sales of higher ethanol blends quiets, opposition to the measure is getting louder.