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A Department of Agriculture lifecycle analysis of ethanol`s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) shows a favorable comparison to gasoline, and indicates a positive disparity between the two could continue to grow.

President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Congress should scrap a wide range of laws and regulations that impinge on free choice, including the ethanol mandate and biotech crop oversight, says a libertarian Washington group with oil, coal and financial industry ties.

In his final days in the White House, President Obama clearly is determined to do whatever he can to make sure renewable energy continues on its current growth path.

A survey taken after the election shows strong support for ethanol among Trump voters in six battleground states in the Midwest, Growth Energy, an ethanol producers group, the survey of 3,000 Trump voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana and Minnesota fou

In an effort to drive down the cost of technologies needed to reuse, recycle and remanufacture materials such as metals, fibers, polymers and electronic waste, the Energy Department (DOE) has announced the creation of its Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emission

The U.S. exported 121.9 million gallons (MG) of ethanol in November, the third-largest monthly total in five years, according to government trade data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).

In 2016, the spot energy index in the S&P Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI) rose more than any other commodity group, some 48 percent, according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard sees 2017 as a big moment in the life of the energy industry, and he hopes he has allies in the incoming administration.

Biodiesel production in Iowa reached a record 297 million gallons in 2016, surpassing 2015 s total of 242 million gallons, according to the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association.