biofuels

Farm State lawmakers and biofuel groups are turning up the heat on the White House to approve year-round E15 sales amid the U.S. embargo of Russian oil and soaring gas prices. The crisis has sparked a fierce push by the biofuels industry and its backers in Congress to renew year-round sales of E15 ...

American Farm Bureau President Zippy Duvall sent a letter to the White House asking the Administration to take the necessary steps to address the high energy costs impacting all Americans. Over the past 15 months, oil prices have increased by 130% to more than $120 per barrel ...

The top biofuel and farm advocate groups in the U.S. called on the administration to swiftly expand access to plentiful, lower-cost biofuels as fuel prices get closer to record levels. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is sparking fuel prices higher, and the EPA will soon finalize biofuel blending requirements for 2021 and 2022. The ...

Gas and biofuel prices will go even higher amid conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but biofuel leaders argue that corn ethanol will still be cheaper than gasoline and able to meet demand. Geoff Cooper, President and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association says there’s no arguing that fuel prices go up during war. ...

The warnings are out: war between Russia and Ukraine will drive fuel prices even higher. Biofuel interests say the U.S. response should be more, not less ethanol and biodiesel use, adding oil and gas are a Russian political weapon, while rare earth minerals for electric vehicles can be a Chinese weapon ...

The Ag Secretary is already thinking about the 2023 Farm Bill. Tom Vilsack spoke before the House Agriculture Committee last week and mentioned the upcoming Farm Bill. The Secretary wants the committee to use the next Bill to help him move rural America from an “extractive economy” to a “circular economy.” He said a circ ...

Microsoft is putting $50 million into a LanzaJet facility in Georgia that will produce jet fuel from ethanol. LanzaJet said last week its facility will start producing sustainable jet fuel next year. Reuters said experts consider the airline industry one of the hardest to decarbonize ...

New York will soon be the biggest state to require biodiesel to be blended into its heating oil. Recent legislation said starting in July 2022, petroleum-based heating oil sold in the state will get blended with increasing amounts of biodiesel ...

United Airlines flew more than 100 passengers to Washington, D.C. this week on a plane with one engine running on 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 used 500 gallons of sustainable aviation fuel in one engine and the same amount of conventional jet fuel in the other engine to further prove there are no operational differences between the two ...

Farmers and ranchers are getting a little nervous that Congressional Democrats may still end their stepped-up basis tax break in favor of a capital gains tax at death. The question of if ending stepped-up basis as a revenue source is still on the table was recently put before Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, with Oregon’s senior senator leaving open the possibility that the idea still had legs. B