Recent News

6.15.2020

• COVID-19 Recovery: The Path Forward for U.S. Energy Policy - NEW
• Suspend and Eventually Eliminate the Renewable Fuel Standard - NEW

4.10.2020

• Coronavirus Relief Efforts Should Remove the Burden of Renewable Fuel Standards

1.23.2018

• A Biofuels Bankruptcy

11.29.2017

• Ron Paul: Why Trump must tackle the renewable fuel standard

10.30.2017

• President Trump is caving to ethanol lobbyists

10.27.2017

• USW Statement on Need to Reform Renewable Fuels Standard

• "Drain The Swamp?" Trump Opts For Politics As Usual When It Comes To Ethanol

10.26.2017

• Diesel prices are going up and you can thank the White House for that

• UPDATE 1-U.S. Senators from refinery states seek Trump meeting on biofuels policy

10.25.2017

• It Would Make Sense to Add RINS to Exported Ethanol

• Our Editorial: End the ethanol mandate

10.23.2017

• Pennsylvania governor seeks biofuel mandates waiver

10.22.2017

• Trump Caves on Ethanol

10.20.2017

• EPA’s ethanol stupidity

10.20.2017

• Biodiesel mandates fail consumers, undermine energy independence

8.7.2017

• Free-marketers, environmentalists both have reasons to hate the RFS

7.12.2017

• Big Left Does the Bidding of Big Business

7.11.2017

• Changing The Renewable Fuel Standard Is Crucial To Revitalizing American Manufacturing

7.10.2017

• Ethanol credits drive up the cost of doing business

6.20.2017

• Elizabeth Warren Puts Her Ignorance Of Financial Markets On Display

3.31.2017

• Icahn’t Believe It’s an Ethics Conflict

1.13.2017

• Can New Fuels Flourish?

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November 2016

11.21.2016

• If Oil Refiners Crash, So Will the Economy

11.18.2016

• Biofuel Mandate Opponents Build Overhaul Momentum

11.17.2016

• Money for Nothing - RIN Costs and Their Widely Varying Impact on Refiners and Refining

11.10.2016

• EPA against biofuel mandate change, seeks input

11.9.2016

• Trump Seen as 'Wildcard' for Ethanol Makers as Oil Refiners Jump
• Trump Victory Energizes Stocks in the Oil Patch

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October 2016

10.27.2016

• Big Oil Companies Reap Windfall From Ethanol Rules

10.21.2016

• Consumer Interests Paramount In Pending Fuels Policy

10.19.2016

• RFS loophole poses threat to refiners

10.14.2016

• Fraud Strikes the Heart of America's Biofuel Industry

10.13.2016

• Biofuels and national security: Why consumers should care
• RINse and Repeat: Continued Fraud in the Renewable Fuel Credit Market

10.12.2016

• U.S. biodiesel executives plead guilty to over $60 million fraud scheme

10.11.2016

• United States – DoJ, EPA crack down on RIN fraudsters

10.10.2016

• Make The Renewable Fuel Standard More Fair – And Effective
• Waterloo company worked the RINs

10.6.2016

• EPA, Justice Dept. announce new complaint and settlement over RFS

10.5.2016

• EPA announces settlement with Western Dubuque regarding RFS
• Fraud cases could boost RIN shortfall by 24pc
• Former EPA investigator Parker says RIN fraud ongoing, becoming more sophisticated

10.4.2016

• US Files Complaint, Announces Settlement to Address Alleged Renewable Fuel Standard Violations
• EPA cracks down on renewable fuel violators

10.3.2016

• Biofuels Fraud Raises Questions About Oversight of Credits
• COMMENTARY: Small Retailers Penalized by Renewable Fuels Mess

10.2.2016

• Complex biofuel credits complicate costs for local refinery

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September 2016

9.29.2016

• EPA levels record $27 million fine for renewable fuel violation

9.21.2016

• EPA Mandate Created a $1 Billion Market in Fraudulent Biofuel Credits, Says Criminal Investigator

9.20.2016

• RINs program within RFS created opportunities for fraud, report says

9.16.2016

• From Icahn’s lips to Trump’s economic policy plan (at least the first version)

9.12.2016

• Marathon Petroleum's Templin Likes His Export Advantage
• Valero Energy : Biofuel blending costs soar for Valero

9.9.2016

• U.S. refiners revamp operations as renewable fuel costs surge

9.8.2016

• Refiner Cuts Costs, Offers Buyouts as Ethanol Credits Rise

9.5.2016

• EPA has not met RFS compliance requirements, report says

9.1.2016

• The Renewable Fuel Standard is Hurting Consumers and U.S. Refineries
• Who Should Pay For Our Ethanol Policy — Huge Oil Or Fuel Stations?

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August 2016

8.31.2016

• RINs Are Battering Alon Into Submission
• The oil industry is split over the Renewable Fuel Standard program
• Who should pay for our corn ethanol policy – Big Oil or gas stations?

8.30.2016

• Setting the record straight: The real issue with the renewable fuel standard program is the blender loophole
• Is the Renewable Fuel Standard program helpful or hurtful?

8.29.2016

• Compliance costs undermining the goal of the US Renewable Fuel Standard: Fuel for Thought
• Refiners: Acquire Renewable Energy Group To Turn RIN Lemons Into Lemonade
• Retailers dispute refiners’ proposed RIN changes

8.26.2016

• It's Time To Rethink The Ethanol Mandate

8.25.2016

• Carl Icahn Rails Against The Evils Of RIN City
• Guest column: New renewable fuels rules will crush Tennessee

8.23.2016

• Feature: Could a RINs market probe fuel RFS reforms?
• Biofuel policy boosts big oil, bankruptcy: O'Malley

8.22.2016

• High-Price Ethanol Credits Add to Refiners’ Woes

8.18.2016

• Refiners, Small Retailers Fight RIN System Small Fuel Retailers Call for Even Playing Field

8.17.2016

• Carl Icahn Has a Pablo Escobar Joke for You
• The RINferno, as it burns up America’s venture into advanced biofuels

8.16.2016

• Billionaire Carl Icahn Says the EPA Could Bankrupt Renewable Fuel Refiners
• Icahn Plunges Into The Battle Over The Blending Mandate
• Icahn urges EPA to change renewable fuel credit market

8.8.2016

• The Renewable Fuel Standard: ‘Set Up for Fraud’

8.5.2016

• AFPM Petitions EPA To Shift RFS Compliance Burden Further Downstream
• As price of biofuel credits spike, refiners suspect market manipulation
• AFPM asks EPA to move FRS’s point of obligation

8.4.2016

• Oil Refiners Cry Foul as ‘RINsanity’ Returns Amid Margin Squeeze
• U.S. refining trade group pushes EPA to change biofuels program

8.3.2016

• RFA asks EPA, CFTC to examine possible manipulation of RIN market
• HollyFrontier Corporation : Reports Quarterly Results and Announces Regular Cash Dividend

8.2.2016

• EPA Should Change Biofuels Program To Help Small Fuel Retailers; Letter
• RIN and Bear It

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July 2016

7.29.2016

• Biofuel Mandates Bleed American Refineries Dry

7.28.2016

• CVR Refining Reports 2016 Second Quarter Results

7.26.2016

• Valero RIN costs may rise to as high as $850 mil in 2016: company

7.23.2016

• America’s Biofuel Boondoggle Rife with Fraud

7.15.2016

• US refiners feel pinch of higher RFS compliance

7.14.2016

• Refiners press EPA to switch RFS biofuels 'point of obligation

7.13.2016

• The Refining Industry's Summer of Discontent

7.12.2016

• RIN prices soar after RFS comment period closes

7.11.2016

• Biofuels compliance credits rally amid battle over U.S. mandates

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June 2016

6.16.2016

• Valero petitions EPA to redefine RFS obligated party

6.14.2016

• Valero seeks to make rack sellers responsible for US biofuel mandate compliance
• Valero renews push for EPA to tweak U.S. biofuels program
• Valero petition splits US refiners on RFS

6.13.2016

• Valero presses EPA for RFS change

6.9.2016

• Factbox: Oil, biofuels groups battle over EPA's RFS plan

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May 2016

5.31.2016

• Seven things to know about the US EPA’s RFS proposals

5.16.2016

• US refiners feel the pinch of Renewable Fuel Standard costs: Fuel for Thought

5.13.2016

• Ethanol Blending Pressures Already Shrinking Refiner Margins
  

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March 2016

3.17.2016

• Feds team up to go after renewable fuel standard fraud
• EPA, CFTC reach accord on improving renewable fuels market
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission to Oversee Market for Biofuel Credits

3.16.2016

• US EPA 'analyzing' potential shift in RFS obligation from refiners to blenders
• AFPM ’16: Industry leaders see reform of RFS as top US priority

3.8.2016

• Biofuel producer sentenced for "green credit" swindle

3.7.2016

• Oil companies paid $1 billion in RINs to comply with RFS in 2015
• Biofuels RINs fraudster sentenced to more than 10 years in US prison

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February 2016

2.22.2016

• Valero asks EPA to redefine RFS definition of obligated party

2.15.2016

• US oil groups file lawsuits against EPA’s latest renewable fuels mandate

2.12.2016

• Refiners' lawsuits seek change in US biofuels mandate's point of obligation
• Valero Energy suing EPA over renewable program
• Valero sues EPA over ethanol standard
• Valero Files Petition to EPA on RFA Program
• US refiner Valero joins lawsuits against EPA over biofuels blending plan

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