Washington DC -May 20- Ethanol exports have boomed in recent months, with shipments destined for dozens of energy-thirsty nations around the globe, including some in the Middle East.

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Washington DC -April 30- The Magellan Pipeline Company, L.P. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has agreed to pay a $418,000 fine in order to resolve violations of the federal Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.

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Washington DC -April 29- Working gas in storage was 1,912 Bcf as of Friday, April 23, 2010, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 83 Bcf from the previous week.

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Washington DC -April 28- U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased by 1.9 million barrels from the previous week.

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Washington DC -April 28- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. the sponsor of legislation that would ban offshore drilling along the North- and Mid-Atlantic States, issued the following statement in response to the hearing in Newark on the Obama Administration’s plan to pursue offshore oil and gas exploration along the Atlantic Coast:

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Washington DC -April 16- USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has invited public comment on several proposed rules designed to increase the production of advanced biofuels and the development of biorefineries. The programs are authorized under the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (The Farm Bill).

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Washington DC - April 8 - Ethanol production is an unparalleled economic engine in hundreds of small communities all across America. But tens of thousands of the jobs ethanol helps support are in peril if Congress fails to extend key tax incentives.

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Washington DC - April 6 - Funding the existing cellulosic biofuel reverse auction program is a targeted, affordable way to assist pioneer cellulosic biofuel producers in the United States.

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Washington DC - March 26 - Joined by advocates of America’s renewable fuels industry, Congressman Earl Pomeroy and Congressman John Shimkus unveiled legislation that would extend tax incentives that are critical to the nation’s ethanol industry and the preservation of hundreds of thousands of jobs.

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Washington DC - March 23 - The Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) today released its 2010 production forecast for ethanol and predicts global production will reach 85.9 billion litres (22.7 billion gallons) in 2010 growing by 16.2 per cent from 2009 production.

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Washington DC March 22 - The scramble to find sufficient land for biofuel production has experts eyeing marginal croplands that have been placed in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP).

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Washington DC - March 15 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that Fiscal Year 2009 funding is available again through three USDA programs to promote increased production of biofuel and bioenergy, authorized under the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008.

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Washington DC - February 18 - The American Soybean Association (ASA) is calling for the Senate to reinsert a retroactive extension of the biodiesel tax incentive in the first Jobs Bill it passes to save the jobs of 23,000 people working in the biodiesel industry.

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Washington DC - February 17 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $144 million in loan guarantees to assist 54 rural businesses through funding made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Washington DC - February 11 - U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass, shedding light on the genetics behind hardier varieties of wheat and improved varieties of biofuel crops.

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