Insights and Stories on Renewable Fuel

US approves E15 gasoline sales expansion in Midwest starting 2025

Feb. 22, 2024 at 4:54 pm CST

The U.S. government said on Thursday it approved a request from Midwestern governors allowing expanded sales of gasoline with higher blends of ethanol in their states, starting in 2025.

U.S. EPA proposal likes canola oil for renewable fuel

May. 5, 2022 at 10:24 am CDT

By Allan Dawson

U.S. EPA to propose expanding credit eligibility under biofuel program

Dec. 3, 2021 at 9:20 pm CST

By Jarrett Renshaw Stephanie Kelly

Imperial Oil lays out Alberta renewable diesel plan

Aug. 25, 2021 at 2:14 pm CDT

By Laura Sanicola

CBOT weekly outlook: Weather market expected for rest of month

Jun. 16, 2021 at 6:41 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn, soy drop; soyoil limit-down

Jun. 11, 2021 at 7:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures eased and soyoil futures plunged by their daily trading limit on Friday on concerns about demand for renewable fuel feedstocks after news the White House was considering offering fuel refiners relief from biofuel blending mandates. The Reuters report that the U.S. […]

By Karl Plume

Conservatives’ new climate plan puts price on carbon

Apr. 17, 2021 at 6:06 am CDT

Canada’s ag sector is expected to serve as a carbon sink, a renewable fuel source and a beneficiary in the federal Conservative Party’s new climate change plan — which now includes putting a price on carbon. Party leader Erin O’Toole announced the new plan Thursday — after a long campaign […]

By D.C. Fraser

Trump’s EPA sides with farmers over refiners on biofuel waivers

Sep. 14, 2020 at 7:30 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — The Trump administration said on Monday it rejected scores of requests from U.S. oil refiners for waivers that would have retroactively spared them from their obligation to blend biofuels like ethanol into their fuel, delivering a win for farmers and a blow to the oil […]

By Stephanie Kelly

Trump said considering counting ethanol exports toward quotas

May. 9, 2018 at 12:49 am CDT

New York | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump told a group of senators on Tuesday he is considering allowing exported ethanol to count toward the volumes mandated under the nation’s biofuels law, a move intended to appease both Big Oil and Big Corn by cutting the refiners’ regulatory costs […]

By Jarrett Renshaw

U.S. Midwest lawmakers will consider biofuel changes

Dec. 14, 2017 at 3:45 am CST

New York | Reuters — U.S. lawmakers from states that produce corn for ethanol plants said on Wednesday they would consider proposals from Senator Ted Cruz of Texas to help the oil refining industry cope with the nation’s biofuels regulation, but would never agree on anything that diminishes the program. […]