Insights and Stories on Ethanol

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

Aug. 29, 2019 at 6:44 pm CDT

Washington/South Sioux City | Reuters — President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration is planning a “giant package” related to ethanol that would please U.S. farmers angry that many more oil refiners have been freed from obligations to use the corn-based fuel. Clashes between farmers and the oil industry […]

Manitoba Tories pledge to pump up biofuel content

Aug. 27, 2019 at 6:02 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

U.S. grains: Corn edges higher on cool weather

Aug. 22, 2019 at 7:28 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

Farmer’s threat prompts USDA to pull staff from crop tour

Aug. 21, 2019 at 5:20 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek

CBOT weekly outlook: U.S. grain traders watch yields, demand

Aug. 21, 2019 at 4:54 pm CDT

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

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

U.S. ethanol industry nearing breaking point: Green Plains CEO

Jul. 29, 2019 at 12:14 pm CDT

New York | Reuters – The U.S. ethanol industry is about to break under the weight of the Trump Administration’s trade war with China and the surge in the number of small refineries exempted from the nation’s biofuel laws, said Todd Becker, CEO of Green Plains. The U.S. ethanol industry […]

By Jarrett Renshaw Stephanie Kelly

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 […]