Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is encouraging Iowa fuel retailers to apply for cost-share grants through the Iowa Renewable Fuels Infrastructure Program to upgrade fueling systems and provide consumers with greater access to higher biofuel blends.
Growth Energy filed briefs to intervene in three cases in late August in support of the U.S. EPA and its decisions to deny SREs for refiners seeking to avoid complying with their blending obligations under the RFS.
ACE’s 36th annual conference featured a panel of tax experts that explained enhancements to Sections 45, 45Q, 45V, 48 and the new Section 45Z of the Internal Revenue Code, and share insights on how to maximize on these incentives.
Minnesota Department of Agriculture Commissioner Thom Petersen is encouraging the federal government to allow the U.S. DOE's GREET model to be used to calculate GHG reductions for the purposes of the SAF tax credit.
A major farm show and state fair this week in two Midwest states will provide the backdrop for the Renewable Fuels Association’s latest push to see American-made, lower-carbon ethanol supported as a feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
In a letter on Aug. 24 to U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan, the RFA blasted EPA’s Science Advisory Board for its recent report making “specious” and unfounded claims about corn ethanol’s impact on greenhouse gas emissions.
The American Carbon Alliance on Aug. 23 sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel urging the U.S. Treasury Department to adopt the U.S. Department of Energy’s GREET model to calculate the GHG emissions impacts of SAF.
Reps. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, and Max Miller, R-Ohio, on Aug. 18 introduced the Farm to Fuselage Act, legislation that aims to update the Farm Bill to facilitate increased domestic production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Growth Energy filed a motion to intervene in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in response to the Hunt Refining Company’s lawsuit seeking to reverse the U.S. EPA’s decision to reject unwarranted SREs.
The U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board is scheduled to discuss draft commentary on the agency’s recently finalized Renewable Fuel Standard “set” rule during a public meeting scheduled to be held Sept. 21-22 in Washington, D.C.
More than 1.98 billion RINs were generated under the RFS in July, up from 1.71 billion generated during the same month of last year. Total RIN generation for the first seven months of 2023 reached 13.4 billion.
EPA: No new SREs filed under the RFS
August 18, 2023
The U.S. EPA published updated small refinery exemption (SRE) data on Aug. 17, reporting that no new SRE petitions have been filed under the Renewable Fuel Standard in the past month. Only two SRE petitions remain pending.
The Surface Transportation Board is soliciting nominations to fill six vacancies on its Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee. One of those vacancies is to be filled by a biofuel producer or feedstock provider.
Growth Energy filed a motion to intervene in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) v. EPA et al. (Case No. 23-1277). CBD is challenging the EPA’s RFS “set” rule.
On the first anniversary of the IRA becoming law, the RFA released a new inventory of announcements, press releases, and news articles regarding investments RFA members are making to reduce the CI of the renewable fuels and bioproducts they produce.
Growth Energy marked the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act by releasing new data on the economic, employment, and agriculture market potential of the bill’s Section 45Z clean fuel production tax credit.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office has awarded $2.5 million in funding to four projects that aim to advance lab-developed clean bioenergy technologies towards commercialization.
The U.S. EPA has announced it will hold a public webinar on Sept. 7 to discuss the implementation of new regulatory provisions included in the final Renewable Fuel Standard “set” rule, which was released on June 21.
ACE on Aug. 14 called on U.S. President Joe Biden to ensure the U.S. EPA promptly finalizes its proposed regulation to eliminate the 1-psi Reid RVP waiver for gasoline containing 10 percent ethanol in eight states.
Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor discusses the importance of using the GREET model to calculate the lifecycle analysis of SAF in the U.S. and debunks claims by the anti-agriculture crowd that renewable fuels will promote “clearing land to grow crops.”
In a letter sent Aug. 1 to U.S. EPA Administrator Michael Regan, the RFA urged the agency to quickly finalize its regulations accepting the petition of eight Midwest governors that would allow summertime sales E15 in their states.
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., on July 27 introduced the Flex Fuel Fairness Act, a bill that aims to provide meaningful incentives for automakers to manufacture FFVs in addition to battery electric vehicles.
A bipartisan group of 21 federal lawmakers on July 28 sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urging the Treasury Department to adopt the U.S. DOE's GREET model as the secondary methodology for calculating the SAF tax credit.
The DOE's BETO often requires FOA award recipients to comply with technical and economic validation of their novel technologies. The agency has released a new set of web resources to help awardees and applicants under the process.
The Iowa Renewable Fuels Infrastructure Program board approved 35 project applications totaling more than $1.6 million during its quarterly board meeting on July 20. The awards support both ethanol and biodiesel projects.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on July 20 introduced the Biomanufacturing and Jobs Act, which aims to strengthen the USDA’s BioPreferred Program. Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa; Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., are cosponsoring the bill.
Growth Energy on July 25 filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in The San Antonio Refinery, LLC, et al. v. U.S. EPA. The case pertains to a group of refineries seeking to avoid complying with the RFS.
The Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vietnam Petroleum Association and the U.S. Grains Council jointly organized the first iteration of Decarbonize Asia: Vietnam Biofuels Forum to discuss technical, commercial and environmental considerations for the expansion of fuel ethanol use in the country.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., on July 19 introduced a bill that aims to alter the RFS by changing the way RIN compliance credits are generated and slashing the renewable volume obligations (RVOs) of small refiners.
The third ministerial meeting of the U.S.-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership was held in New Delhi on July 18. Participants, in part, welcomed cooperation between the two countries related to biofuels, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
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