14 News & Press Releases found
Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) News
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Lawrence, KS Gas Station First to Offer E15 Ethanol Fuel in the U.S.
For the first time, American drivers can now choose a new fueling option at the pump. The nation’s first E15 (15 percent ethanol/85 percent gasoline) gallons are now selling at the Zarco 66 station at 1500 E. 23rd Street ...
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Expiration of ethanol tax incentives would hurt states all across America
Ethanol production is an unparalleled economic engine in hundreds of small communities all across America. But tens of thousands of the jobs ethanol helps support are in peril if Congress fails to extend key tax incentives for the use and production ...
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Environmental activists continue to mislead about ethanol
As is often the case, a new report from critics of biofuels promise immediate benefits from repealing current biofuel policies in favor of those that would take the world’s most productive cropland out of production. Moreover, the report seeks to ...
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Global ethanol production to reach 85.9 billion litres (22.7 billion gallons) in 2010
The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) today released its 2010 production forecast for ethanol and the future continues to look positive for growth in the industry. Total ethanol production for 2009 was 73.9 billion litres (19.5 billion ...
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112,000 jobs at risk without ethanol tax incentive extension
Extending the tax incentives for ethanol, regardless of feedstock, would save 112,000 jobs from being lost. That is nearly 30% of the 400,000 jobs ethanol production helps support today. Failure to extend the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit ...
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Use of higher ethanol blends gets boost
The ethanol industry’s push to expand the use of ethanol through blender pump technology got a boost today. According to a Dresser Wayne press release, Underwriters Laboratory (UL) has approved the use of the company’s Ovation Eco Fuel dispenser for ...
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2009 ethanol production exceeds 10.7 billion gallons
U.S. ethanol production reached yet another all time high in December 2009 at 787,000 barrels per day (b/d), according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). That is an increase of 131,000 b/d from December 2008. Ethanol ...
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State of the Union: Recognizing the impact of America`s original green industry
This week, President Obama will deliver his first State of the Union Address that will focus in large measure on job creation. The President will rightly target new public and private investments in clean energy and green jobs. As a longtime ...
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RFA disappointed in failure to uphold California law in LCFS decision
Sacramento – Ignoring numerous examples of violations of California law by the Air Resources Board (ARB), the state’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has approved the Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) for implementation. “Pursuing this strategy ...
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New tactics, same tired playbook: Ethanol critics repackage rame misinformation in new pro-oil campaign
For nearly three years, big oil and food processors together with corporate livestock interests have spent millions of dollars to bring America’s quest for a renewable alternative to oil to an end. Now, in a turn of events that would have founders ...
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Ethanol Industry to EPA: RFS about more than greenhouse gases
The drive to produce and use more domestic renewable fuels is about energy security, economic opportunity, and environmental sustainability. Unfortunately, in its proposed rule for the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2), the U.S. Environmental ...
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Ethanol in the Classroom: Educating the next generation of biofuel visionaries
Education is a critical aspect of all successful innovations and fundamental to efforts to change the way things have always been done. Our nation’s current energy crisis is no exception. That is why the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and the ...
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Is EPA stacking the deck against ethanol?
The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) today asserted that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) stacked the deck against biofuels in its process to “peer review” the agency’s indirect land use change analysis (ILUC) conducted for the Renewable ...
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RFA urges adoption of E15; Provides basis for interim E12 step
Increasing the amount of ethanol blended into the nation’s fuel supply is both scientifically justified and economically prudent, said the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). In comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the ...