U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced today that USDA is providing $7 million in payments to advanced biofuel producers across the country through the Advanced Biofuel Producer Payment Program, a component of the One Big Beautiful Bill. This round of funding is intended to boost the production of biofuels made from American-grown feedstocks.
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Scaling up biofuels, hydrogen and synthetic fuels is essential for meeting rising global energy needs while cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Twenty-three nations — with Italy, Japan, India and Brazil at the forefront — have pledged to increase sustainable fuel production and use fourfold by 2035. Achieving this objective will require interoperable standards, strong investment, coordinated
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Five years after the COVID-19 national emergency was declared, gasoline demand, distillate demand, and jet fuel demand all remain less than pre-pandemic averages. Several factors are keeping demand, which we track as product supplied, below pre-pandemic levels. For example, increased fuel efficiency in the vehicle and aircraft fleets has offset increased travel, and demand for
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U.S. production of renewable diesel and biodiesel fell sharply in the first quarter of 2025 due to uncertainty related to federal biofuel tax credits and renewable volume obligations, leading to negative profit margins. The U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts production of both fuels to increase as the year progresses but biodiesel production to remain less
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The Transportation Energy Institute (TEI) recently released “Balancing the Benefits of Biofuels: The Economics of U.S. Crop-Based Fuel Production.” This report was developed for TEI by Stillwater Associates, a transportation fuels consulting firm specializing in mid to downstream markets. Biofuels possess great potential to contribute to a lower carbon transportation sector, yet questions remain regarding
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