Renewable Fuels Association

Voters chose to send Donald Trump, who served his first term as U.S. president from 2016 to 2020, back to the White House in the Nov. 5 national election.

Indiana Corn Marketing Council participated in a groundbreaking ceremony at Wally’s Travel Center in Whitestown, which will sell Unleaded 88, a 15% blend of ethanol.

Some day, the passenger jets that soar 35,000 feet over Dan McLean’s North Dakota farm could be fueled by corn grown on his land and millions of other acres across the Midwest.

With multiple corporations targeting Illinois for underground carbon storage and the pipelines that go along with it, the General Assembly passed the Safety and Aid for the Environment in Carbon Capture and Sequestration Act.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency waiver to allow fuel made with 15% plant-based bioethanol to be sold during the summer.

The announcement of guidance on eligibility for the sustainable aviation fuel tax credit was met with both concern and optimism.

Corn growers are positioned to meet the needs of the sustainable aviation fuel industry, but hurdles remain.

The summertime ban on gasoline blended with 15% ethanol has been lifted in eight Midwest states, effective in April 2025.

Farm, aviation and biofuel groups voiced support for a science-based approach to measure greenhouse gas emission reductions in Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

National Corn Growers Association President Harold Wolle outlined the organization’s efforts at the Illinois Corn Growers Association’s recent annual meeting.

The Illinois Corn Growers Association thanked Rich Clemmons for over four decades of work representing agriculture in Illinois policy. Clemmons announced his retirement after supporting ICGA as a lobbyist since 2008.

Critics of the EPA’s biofuel blending targets say it doesn’t accurately reflect the industry’s expected growth and is below the corn-based ethanol mandate previously proposed.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s move to issue an emergency waiver for fuel stations to sell a 15% ethanol blend through the summer nationwide was met with kudos from the renewable fuels industry and agriculture groups, but not the petrochemical manufacturers.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed increasing the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the nation’s fuel supplies over the next three years, a move welcomed by renewable fuel and farm groups, but condemned by environmentalists.

Oftentimes the simple answer to a simple question is the simple truth. Some people, however, don’t want the simple truth, so they bend facts or shave figures so their square pegs replace roundly accepted reality. It’s commonplace in ag.

Renewable fuel boosters did some “myth busting” and discussed ethanol’s role in gasoline prices during a National Corn Growers Association podcast.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a package of action setting 2020, 2021 and 2022 Renewable Fuel Standard biofuel volumes.

Eight Midwest governors sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in support of the year-round sale of E15 fuel.

A new analysis by the Renewable Fuels Association found corn ethanol now provides nearly three times the energy used to produce it.

Agriculture organizations voiced support of the Biden administration’s move to lift the restrictions of using E15 gasoline during the summer.

E15 gasoline blend sales reached a record level of 814 million gallons in 2021. The volume represented a 62% increase over 2020 and was nearly double pre-pandemic sales volumes in 2019, according to analysis by the Renewable Fuels Association.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently denied 36 small refinery exemption petitions for the 2018 compliance year. EPA is still considering petitions from other refineries for compliance years ranging from 2016 to 2021.

If you plan to go shopping for a new flex-fuel vehicle, your choices may be limited. Very limited, in fact, to a single automaker.

After a couple of years of more downs than ups, there’s optimistic news on the ethanol front looking toward 2022 and beyond.

After falling to a seven-year production low in 2020, the ethanol industry is bouncing back. “The ethanol industry really made great strides in 2021 in terms of recovering from the COVID pandemic,” said Geoff Cooper, Renewable Fuels Association president and CEO.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed biofuel blending volumes for 2020, 2021 and 2022 drew a mixed bag of reactions from biofuel proponents and the oil industry.

Kelly Davis was on the ground floor in the early days of the modern ethanol industry and reflected on the renewable fuel and its growth.

New National Corn Growers Association President Chris Edgington brings life lessons he learned from his father to the new leadership role.

Bruce Heine first saw ethanol’s potential impact through his family’s gasoline retail business in 1980.

The Renewable Fuels Association is celebrating its 40th year of advocating for the ethanol industry and its early struggles were many. RFA’s roots began on the heels of the 1973 oil embargo and 1979 oil crisis, and Ron Miller, now president of Agresti Energy, was there during those early days when “gasohol” tried to gain traction in the marketplace.

The U.S. Court of Appeals vacated three 11th-hour small refineries exemptions granted by the previous administration’s Environmental Protection Agency.

The serious impacts of the recent cyber attack brings to light the need for greater energy infrastructure diversity.

The president and auto industry maintain the nation is on the cusp of a gigantic shift to electric vehicles and away from liquid-fueled cars, but biofuels producers and some of their supporters in Congress aren’t buying it. They argue that now is the time to increase sales of ethanol and biodiesel, not abandon them.