The industry is still trying to regain domestic markets lost when Scott Pruitt handed out small refinery waivers.

The Renewable Fuels Association announced this week that its CEO, Bob Dinneen, will step down from that job next October after leading the group since 2001.

What happened in Washington this week?

It will take a year or two for U.S. ethanol to enter the Japanese market.

For decades, ethanol has been a combustible topic in Washington, D.C. Interests representing farmers and ethanol producers often clash with the petroleum industry.

Farm groups and some members of Congress are worried that the HPO in crop insurance revenue policies could be eliminated or weakened when the bill is debated.

Almost a decade after the EPA approved the sale of E15, the industry hopes to push beyond that 10% so-called blend wall by promoting E15 at the pump and lobbying EPA to ease its sale.

With crop prices depressed, the best solution for a struggling farm economy would be allowing expansion of 15% ethanol-gasoline blends, said Jeff Broin, the founder and CEO of POET.

Is this a welfare program or an insurance program, asks Kansas State University economist Art Barnaby.

E15 is now sold at more than 1,300 gas stations in 29 states, including many in the East that are outside of rural areas in the Corn Belt.