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Farm, biofuel and petroleum groups are urging lawmakers to act fast in coming up with legislation to allow full-year sales of higher ethanol blends across the U.S. and limit the ability of certain refiners to seek exemptions from the Renewable Fuel Standard.

The Agriculture Department's Rural Business-Cooperative Service has put a 90-day pause on accepting loan note guarantees for projects involving biodigesters and controlled environment agriculture, according to an agency memo.

The latest failed attempt to expand ethanol’s share of the U.S. gas tank is putting divisions within the petroleum oil industry on full display.  

Trump is set to head to Iowa on Tuesday as the green diesel lobby presses him to move fast in finalizing key biofuel policies.

The White House has finished its regulatory review of the Clean Fuel Production Tax Credit, known as 45Z, signaling that public release will soon follow. 

President Donald Trump kicks off a series of weekly campaign trips across the U.S. with a visit to Iowa even as the ethanol industry and corn producers are angry about the failure of an E15 provision to move in Congress. In Washington, Trump faces the prospect of another partial government shutdown after a second fatal shooting in Minneapolis involving immigration agents.

Ethanol industry backers expressed outrage Thursday after House leadership decided to create a study council for biofuel issues rather than including a year-round E15 provision in a fiscal 2026 spending package.

Midwest Republicans made a last-ditch attempt with House leadership to add year-round E15 to a fiscal 2026 appropriations package, and they came away with authorization of a council to study the issue and develop legislation to be considered next month. The rule for the funding package would set up the "E-15 Rural Domestic Energy Council."

A partnership between ag-tech giant Corteva and oil behemoth BP is eying a 10% share of the EU market for green jet fuel, an optimistic signal for a biofuel industry facing an uncertain policy future. 

America’s corn producers were expressing disappointment after legislation to allow year-round U.S. sales of higher ethanol blends, known as E15, was left out of a suite of fiscal 2026 spending bills unveiled Tuesday as lawmakers try to avoid another government shutdown. Lawmakers who support year-round E15 were working to salvage the provision.