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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Washington DC - February 5 - The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) proposed policy options that provide needed incentives to support U.S. job growth in commercial scale biorefinery projects for production of advanced biofuels, biobased products and renewable specialty chemicals.

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Washington DC - February 4 - American Farm Bureau Federation(AFBF) President Bob Stallman released a statement expressing optimism in regards to the EPA’s renewable fuel standards rule.

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Washington DC - February 4 - President Barack Obama announced a series of steps his Administration is taking, boosting biofuels production and reducing dangerous dependence on foreign oil, as part of its comprehensive strategy building a foundation for a new clean energy economy.

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Washington DC - February 4 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a proposed rule for the new Biomass Crop Assistance Program that intends to spur the expansion of dedicated non-food crops for renewable energy and biofuel production.

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Washington DC - January 22 - The United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Navy announced that leadership from the two departments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to encourage the development of advanced biofuels and other renewable energy systems.

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Washington DC - January 11 - Congressmen Leonard Boswell, Dave Loebsack, and Bruce Braley joined together to insist that House leadership make the renewal of the biodiesel tax credit a priority in its second session to ensure that biodiesel remains competitive with conventional diesel fuel.

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Washington DC - December 28 - The Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy issued a joint statement relating to a complaint they filed in Federal District Court concerning the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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Washington DC - December 8 - U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that a second round of funding opportunities for transformational energy research projects that will be made available through the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy(ARPA-E).

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Washington DC - December 7 - U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the selection of 19 integrated biorefinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Washington DC - December 2 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it expects to make a final determination in mid-2010 regarding whether to increase the allowable ethanol content in fuel up to 15 percent.

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Washington DC - December 1 - As demand for water from various sectors increases and places additional stress on already constrained supplies, the effects of expanded biofuel production may need to be considered.

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Washington DC - November 25 - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that it might be more cost-effective, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable to use corn stover for generating an energy-rich oil called bio-oil and for making biochar to enrich soils and sequester carbon.

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