Lynn Grooms hails from the Badger State. An agricultural journalist and contributing editor to Farm Industry News, she frequently covers the biofuels industry.
The Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Stores of Iowa (PMCI) is asking Iowa’s legislators to implement a grant program to replace aging underground gas and diesel storage tanks. Many tanks are approaching or...
Leifmark, LLC and New Holland Agriculture collaborated this fall on a corn stover harvesting project in Iowa. The project showed that stover harvesting is practical, noted Paul Kamp, Leifmark's Chicago-based...
USDA announced this week that it is awarding $5.6 million in grants to 220 producers (see the PDF chart here for the listing of producers receiving more than $500) to support advanced biofuel production. It also is...
More than 50 partners in the 25x’25 Alliance, including the National Corn Growers Association and several state growers associations, urged the EPA this week to issue guidance on flex fuel vehicles (FFVs). The...
Auto manufacturers have approved the use of E15 in approximately two-thirds of new vehicles. This accounts for about 80 percent of the vehicles on the road today, reports the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA)...
Four years after the EPA approved E15 for use in cars and light trucks model 2001 and newer, members of the Travelers Motor Club and Association Motor Club Marketing have reported no problems as a result of using E15...
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) this week announced it is suing the EPA for failing to provide documents regarding efforts by the oil industry to influence the Renewable Fuel Standard ...
Quad County Corn Processors (QCCP), Galva, Iowa, has achieved EPA certification to generate D3 Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) for cellulosic ethanol produced with Cellerate process technology. This is...
Nationwide, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has generated approximately $184.5 billion in economic output and has supported more than 852,000 jobs, according to a new report from Fuels America. In Iowa alone...
