March 12, 2026
BY Erin Krueger
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The U.S. exported nearly 50,000 barrels per day (b/d) of renewable diesel and other biofuels—a category which includes sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)—in the second half of 2025 (2H25), about 20% of the combined production for those fuels.
Hawaii lawmakers on May 6 approved legislation to create a clean fuel standard (CFS) that aims to reduce the CI of transportation fuels by at lease 50% below 2019 levels by 2045. The bill will now be considered by Hawaii Governor Josh Green.
The European Commission in April approved a delegated regulation to update the methodology and data for high-ILUC risk biofuels. The change, if formally adopted, would phase out the use of soybean oil as a biofuel feedstock in the EU by 2030.
U.K.-based Clean Planet Technologies has announced the opening of a pilot facility that converts waste plastic to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The facility utilizes pyrolysis, purification, distillation and hydroprocessing technologies.
The U.S. exported more than 1.1 million metric tons of wood pellets in March, up from 608,572.1 metric tons in February and 781,576.4 metric tons in March 2025, according to data released by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service on May 5.