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Federal agency officials, the governors of Washington and Oregon, and the leaders of four tribes on Friday gathered at the White House Friday for a ceremonial signing of a $1 billion agreement meant to halt salmon declines in the Columbia and Snake River system.

USTR’s Chief Agricultural Negotiator Doug McKalip is working to break down barriers for U.S. ag exports around the globe and when it comes to ethanol, he says Brazil is at the top of his list.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack told ethanol industry advocates he is confident that E15 (gasoline blended with 15% ethanol) will be available in all 50 states by 2025 and will be able to qualify for sustainable aviation fuel and clean fuel tax incentives. 

Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper says 2024 will be “one of the most pivotal and consequential years” the ethanol industry has ever experienced.”

A longstanding court case over salmon declines in the Columbia and Snake rivers will see a five-to-ten-year pause after a federal judge agreed to give the Biden Administration, four Northwestern tribes, an assortment of environmental groups and the states of Washington and Oregon additional time to test out a $1 billion agreement intended to resolve the dispute.

Producers of renewable diesel and biodiesel are facing a “serious headwind” after the Environmental Protection Agency set usage mandates so low that they’re restraining demand for the biofuels, according to Donnell Rehagen, CEO of Clean Fuels Alliance America.

Seventeen biofuel plants will be added to Summit Carbon Solutions' carbon pipeline route under a new partnership with POET, the nation's largest producer of ethanol.