Impact of Small Refinery Exemptions (SREs) Entirely Positive
Ethanol demand is higher than ever while waivers have helped contain RFS compliance costs.
Industry Innovations Offer Bold, Consumer-Friendly Approach to Cleaner Vehicles
Often overlooked in the compendium of efforts toward a cleaner vehicle fleet are bold, industry-led innovations inefficient liquid fuels, vehicle designs and internal combustion engines that continue to dramatically reduce tailpipe emissions.
How Refiners Use Monitoring Tools to Support Community Health and Safety
Nothing is more important than the health and safety of our people and our communities—the communities where our employees live, work and go to school.
Virtual Reality Improving Training, Safety at Refining And Petrochemical Facilities
The operator of an 800-ton crane at ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge, Louisiana, polypropylene project construction site lowers a new 150-foot-tall reactor into place.
Preparing the Future Workforce: When the Teacher Becomes the Student
Teachers tasked with preparing the next generation of petrochemical and refinery workers are becoming the students.
Outlook 2020: Fuels & Petrochemicals Will Continue to Help Humanity Thrive
A 15-year rise in U.S. exports of refined products continued in 2019 with our nation exporting more than ever, underscoring the importance of these products to fueling a growing world.
AFPM Statement on 2020 Renewable Fuel Standard Volumes
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, AFPM issued the following statement on the final RFS volumes announced for 2020 and EPA’s related decision on its supplemental proposal.
RFS: There are no lost gallons to reallocate
In the final days before EPA issues the 2020 volumes for the federal biofuel mandate and makes a ruling on the supplemental proposal offered in October, it’s critical to acknowledge that all available data shows there are no “lost gallons” of ethanol that need to be reallocated as part of these announcements.
Supplemental RFS rule is unfounded — and illegal
EPA’s supplemental proposal to the 2020 Renewable Fuel Standard RVOs is based on false assumptions, and is unauthorized and unprecedented writes AFPM in official comments submitted to the Agency.