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Woman Gets 6 Years in Prison for Damaging Pipeline
She used a cutting torch.
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The Biden administration set new requirements Friday, June 3, 2022, that increase the amount of ethanol that must be blended into the nation's gasoline supply but reduce previous ethanol-blending requirements due to a plunge in fuel demand during the coronavirus pandemic.
Laws & Regulations
EPA Raises Amount of Ethanol that Must Be Blended with Gas
It also reduced previous ethanol-blending requirements.
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This April 4, 2007 file photo, shows a gas pump in that delivers Ethanol fuel. The federal government announced Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, that it will support the ethanol industry in a lawsuit over biofuel waivers granted to oil refineries under President Donald Trump's administration. The Environmental Protection Agency said it is reversing course and will support a January 2020 decision by the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit filed by the Renewable Fuels Association and farm groups.
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EPA Sides with Ethanol Industry in Court Case
The industry filed suit against oil refineries and will head to the Supreme Court this spring.
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Packages of meat sit in a cooler at a local super market.
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Ethanol Industry Aided in Making Sanitizer
Hospitals are desperately searching for hand sanitizer, and ethanol plants that can make large batches of alcohol have offered to help.
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In this Jan. 28, 2014 file photo a jar of ethanol fuel sits on display during the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association meeting in Altoona, Iowa. As hospitals and nursing homes run out of hand sanitizer to fight off the coronavirus, struggling ethanol producers are eager to help. They could provide alcohol to make millions of gallons of the germ-killing sanitizer, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put up a roadblock, frustrating both the health care and ethanol industries with its inflexible regulations during a national health care crisis.
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Plant Seek New Rule for Sanitizer Production
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