Insights and Stories on Biofuel

Trump backs plan boosting biofuel quotas 10 per cent in 2020

Sep. 16, 2019 at 7:27 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump has tentatively approved a plan to increase the amount of biofuels that oil refiners are required to blend each year to compensate for exemptions handed out to small refiners by the Environmental Protection Agency, two sources familiar with the matter said. […]

U.S. grains: Corn firms as oil rally offsets Midwest weather

Sep. 16, 2019 at 7:02 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Trump promises ethanol-related ‘giant package’ to please farmers

Aug. 29, 2019 at 6:44 pm CDT

By David Alexander Humeyra Pamuk Stephanie Kelly

U.S. grains: Corn, soy rise from multi-month lows

Aug. 28, 2019 at 7:05 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Manitoba Tories pledge to pump up biofuel content

Aug. 27, 2019 at 6:02 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

White House seen aiming to calm U.S. farmer unrest over biofuels

Aug. 20, 2019 at 3:53 pm CDT

New York/Washington | Reuters — President Donald Trump’s administration has been scrambling to stem the tide of rising anger in Farm Belt states after its decision this month to allow numerous oil refiners to mix less ethanol into their gasoline, sources told Reuters on Tuesday. Trump held a two-hour meeting […]

By Humeyra Pamuk Jarrett Renshaw

Ag-state senator says Trump EPA ‘screwed us’ with biofuel waivers

Aug. 16, 2019 at 3:51 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — Iowa’s Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has “screwed” the U.S. ethanol industry and farmers by granting waivers to 31 small petroleum refineries, effectively exempting them from an obligation to use more ethanol in their products. The powerful senator, who represents […]

By Humeyra Pamuk

Bunge, BP team up for Brazil sugar and ethanol venture

Jul. 22, 2019 at 1:02 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters – U.S. commodities trader Bunge Ltd and British energy company BP Plc said on Monday they will merge their Brazilian sugar and ethanol operations to create the world’s third-largest sugarcane processor. The joint venture is the largest deal in Brazil’s bioenergy sector since Royal Dutch Shell […]

By Marcelo Teixeira

U.S. refiners urge EPA to keep biofuel waiver requests secret from USDA

Jul. 9, 2019 at 5:03 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — A law firm representing small U.S. refineries has urged the Environmental Protection Agency to keep refiners’ applications for waivers from the nation’s biofuel policy secret from the Department of Agriculture, arguing that the petitions include confidential business information. The request, made by Perkins Coie in a […]

By Reuters

U.S. EPA proposes hike in 2020 biofuel mandate

Jul. 6, 2019 at 3:26 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday proposed refiners increase the volume of biofuels blended into their annual fuel output but did not reallocate the waived amounts under the hardship program, drawing ire from powerful corn and biofuel groups as well as Republican senators. The […]