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Emily Skor, CEO of Growth Energy

November 12, 2024

BY Emily Skor

House committee advances bill with 45Z extension

By Erin Voegele

May 14, 2025

Policy Sustainable Aviation Fuels Carbon Capture

The House Ways and Means Committee on May 14 advanced its portion of President Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill. The draft legislation amends and extends the 45Z clean fuel production credit but repeals several other clean energy tax credits..

By Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

May 14, 2025

Policy Carbon Capture

On May 12, the Iowa Senate voted 27-22 to pass HF 639, effectively banning CCS projects in the state. The IRFA said the vote goes against farmers and ethanol producers seeking to unlock ultra-low carbon ethanol markets around the world.

By Luke Geiver

May 13, 2025

Business Carbon Capture

Startup Nataqua hopes to help ethanol producers turn captured carbon dioxide into more on-site ethanol capacity.

By Lisa Gibson

May 13, 2025

Feedstocks Policy Cellulosic/Advanced

A surge in corn kernel fiber as a feedstock is sweeping the industry, driven by incentives for low carbon intensities and EPA-approved testing methods for D3 RIN qualification.

By Erin Voegele

May 12, 2025

Feedstocks

The USDA currently predicts corn use in ethanol for the 2025-’26 marketing year to be unchanged when compared to the 2024-’25 marketing year, according to forecasts included in the agency’s latest WASDE report, released May 12.

2025 International Fuel Ethanol Workshop & Expo

June 9-11, 2025

CHI HEALTH CENTER | OMAHA,NEBRASKA

Now in its 41st year, the FEW provides the ethanol industry with cutting-edge content and unparalleled networking opportunities in a dynamic business-to-business environment. As the largest, longest running ethanol conference in the world, the FEW is renowned for its superb programming—powered by Ethanol Producer Magazine —that maintains a strong focus on commercial-scale ethanol production, new technology, and near-term research and development. The event draws more than 2,300 people from over 31 countries and from nearly every ethanol plant in the United States and Canada.View More

Carbon Capture & Storage Summit

June 9-11, 2025

CHI HEALTH CENTER | OMAHA,NEBRASKA

Capturing and storing carbon dioxide in underground wells has the potential to become the most consequential technological deployment in the history of the broader biofuels industry. Deploying effective carbon capture and storage at biofuels plants will cement ethanol and biodiesel as the lowest carbon liquid fuels commercially available in the marketplace. The Carbon Capture & Storage Summit will offer attendees a comprehensive look at the economics of carbon capture and storage, the infrastructure required to make it possible and the financial and marketplace impacts to participating producers.View More

North American SAF Conference & Expo

September 22-24, 2025

MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION CENTER | MINNEAPOLIS,MINNESOTA

Serving the Global Sustainable Aviation Fuel Industry Taking place in September, the North American SAF Conference & Expo, produced by SAF Magazine, in collaboration with the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) will showcase the latest strategies for aviation fuel decarbonization, solutions for key industry challenges, and highlight the current opportunities for airlines, corporations and fuel producers.View More