The U.S. EPA recently announced it has finalized an amendment proposed last year that clarifies an aspect of the renewable fuels standard (RFS) program that was inadvertently put in place with the Quality Assurance Program rule.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently released new information on ethanol and biodiesel movements by rail. The new monthly estimates are integrated with EIA's existing Petroleum Supply Monthly.
Drivers want this fuel, and it doesn't cost an interested retailer an arm and a leg to get the right fueling equipment to sell higher blends of ethanol. That was the theme of the American Coalition for Ethanol's congressional briefing held April 14.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released the April edition of its Short-Term Energy Outlook, predicting 2016 ethanol production will increase when compared to 2015 levels, averaging 970,000 to 980,000 barrels per day in 2016 and 2017.
In a recent hearing on USDA Rural Development programs before the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Executive Director Monte Shaw testified in support of renewable fuels programs.
ACE members advocate for RFS, urge E15 RVP relief during fly-in
By American Coalition for Ethanol
April 13, 2016
The American Coalition for Ethanol and nearly 70 of its grassroots members are in Washington, D.C., as part of the group's 8th annual fly-in April 13-14. ACE members will have more than 125 meetings with lawmakers representing 36 states.
The Missouri House of Representatives has passed legislation that aims to extend the sunset date on the state's ethanol producer incentive fund from Dec. 31, 2015 to Dec. 31, 2020. The Missouri Senate is now considering the bill.
Summer is right around the corner, which means backyard barbecues, beach trips and flip flops. But unfortunately, it also means a restriction on the sale of higher ethanol fuel blends. This column appears in the May issue of EPM.
Judging by weekly ethanol production through March 2016, 25 million more bushels of corn will be used for making the biofuel in the 2015-2016 corn marketing year than previously was estimated, USDA said in its April World Supply and Demand Estimate.
A local newspaper takes an uninformed stance, prompting an exercise in writing a short, information-packed rebuttal.
Bliss Baker, president of the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance, recently sent letters to the national leaders of 24 countries that highlighted biofuels as part of their Intended Nationally Determined Contribution plans at COP21.
The week of April 11, Jim Miller, vice president and chief economist of Growth Energy, will join several members of the ethanol industry in traveling to Chinese Taipei to participate in a workshop on ethanol trade development.
Two key interest groups and the Governors' Biofuels Coalition called on the U.S. EPA this week to recognize an overwhelming body of new evidence showing fuel ethanol can provide more than 350 million metric tons of carbon reductions annually.
With an output of 1.8 million head of cattle per year, Alberta is the heart of Canada's beef industry and an area the U.S. Grains Council has identified as a potential growth market for sales of U.S. barley and distillers dried grains with solubles.
On April 7, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad signed legislation establishing a production tax credit for renewable chemicals. Branstad signed the bill at Iowa State University. Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds and several stakeholders were on hand to witness the event.
Renewable energy use in transport in all 28 EU members has been much less than projected in their National Renewable Energy Action Plans, with the gap widening. Actual ethanol consumption has remained relatively flat, in contrast to forecasts.
On April 6, the American Petroleum Institute unveiled anti-biofuel results from a new Harris Poll. Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen has criticizing the poll for using opinionated statements to elicit a negative response.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration recently announced the launch of the web-accessible Transportation Rail Incident Preparedness and Response training resource.
Biofuel number crunchers in the know are finding their jobs easier because of a website hosted by the USDA Economic Research Service that pulls together links to government data from multiple sources on one page.
We have a tremendous opportunity to make the case in the Midterm Review in what EPA says will be a "data driven and transparent process." We can show how carbon reductions are indeed possible using ethanol.
Major gasoline retailers working with Growth Energy have reported that over the past 12 months, using the U.S. average gas mileage of 20 miles-per-gallon, consumers have surpassed 150 million miles using E15 without any negative effects.
On April 4, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced that it has begun to include new data on ethanol and biodiesel transported by railroads in its Petroleum Supply Monthly report.
The more proactive roles producers take in reducing carbon intensity, the more they will benefit as energy use reduction moves from an incentive to a requirement.
On April 5, six biofuel trade associations sent a letter to leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Senate Committee on Finance, and House Ways and Means Committee asking for a multiyear extension of advanced biofuel tax credits.
The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance has sent letters to congratulate national leaders of 13 countries that highlighted biofuels as part of their intended nationally determined contribution plans at COP21 in Paris.
The U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office has released the 2016 update of its Multi-Year Program Plan, which serves as an operational guide to help the BETO manage and coordinate its activities.
The U.S. Grain's Council intensified its promotion of ethanol and sought increased markets for distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) in 2015, according to the organization's 2015 annual report.
On March 31, the USDA Commodity Credit Corp. announced it does not expect to purchase sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program during the second quarter of this year. The agency last sold sugar to bioenergy producers under the program in 2013.
The amount of corn on hand in the United States totaled 7.81 billion bushels on March 31, the USDA said in its annual stocks report. That amount was 7 million bushels more than the trade expected.
Green Plains Bluffton LLC has achieved efficient producer status from the U.S. EPA with a 21.2 percent greenhouse gas reduction compared to the baseline. The facility is the fourth Green Plains plant to achieve the status.
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