Dear Mr. President:
We write on behalf of organizations representing ethanol producers, oil refiners, fuel
marketers, travel plazas, truck stops, and convenience store retailers to express the need
for long-term policy certainty across the transportation fuel sector. Our diverse group of
industries often have unique policy priorities and market concerns, but we have always
shared a common goal to provide affordable, reliable liquid fuels for consumers. However,
our collective ability to continue to do so is being threatened by the ongoing uncertainty
regarding the sale of year-round E15 and the administration of Small Refinery Exemptions
(SREs) under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.
E15 continues to play an expanding role in the fuel marketplace, but unpredictable shortterm waivers, seasonal and geographic restrictions, and regionally unique summer
gasoline specifications in the Midwest have created a shifting regulatory environment that
complicates planning and investment. Legislation allowing the year-round, nationwide
sale of E15 would improve fungibility and substantially reduce many of the complexities
that arise for our industries as we operate in a national marketplace.
In addition, we believe Congress must take legislative action to reform the Small Refinery
Exemption program. The current SRE structure has encouraged a system of winners and
losers that distorts the marketplace, creates instability, and ultimately, hurts consumers.
A more consistent and narrowly applied SRE structure would create a far more predictable
regulatory environment.
The absence of nationwide E15 and the administration of the SRE program present varying
challenges for our industries. They both impact investment and compliance planning,
blending decisions, and the stability of national fuel supply chains. Addressing these two
issues through clear legislation would provide a more coherent and durable policy
foundation, reduce volatility, and enhance confidence for all participants in the
transportation fuel sector.
For these reasons, we respectfully urge you to support legislation that brings lasting
certainty to these fuels issues and supports a stable, efficient marketplace.
Thank you for your consideration of these matters. Our organizations remain committed to
supporting constructive solutions as Congress evaluates next steps.
Sincerely,
American Petroleum Institute
Growth Energy
National Association of Convenience
Stores
NATSO, Representing America’s Travel
Centers and Truck Stops
Renewable Fuels Association
SIGMA: America’s Leading Fuel Marketers
CC:
The Honorable Mike Johnson
Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries
Minority Leader, U.S. House of
Representatives
The Honorable John Thune
Majority Leader, U.S. Senate
The Honorable Chuck Schumer
Minority Leader, U.S. Senate
The Honorable Doug Burgum
Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
The Honorable Brooke Rollins
Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Honorable Chris Wright
Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy
The Honorable Lee Zeldin
Secretary, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency

December 4, 2025
President Donald J. Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500

Re: E15 Negotiations

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Dear Secretary Rubio:
On behalf of America’s biofuel producers and the farmers who supply biofuel feedstocks,
we write to urge the United States to continue its active involvement in discussions
surrounding the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Net-Zero Framework for
maritime fuels. As the IMO’s Marine Environmental Protection Committee prepares to
consider formal adoption of the Net-Zero Framework at its upcoming meeting in London,
we encourage U.S. leaders to remain constructively engaged in the process to ensure the
interests of U.S. biofuel producers, farmers, marine shippers, and consumers are
represented.
While we share the Administration’s concerns with certain elements of the pending
framework, we recognize that IMO standards for low-carbon marine fuels—with
appropriate modifications—could greatly accelerate the development of an important
international market opportunity for U.S. biofuels and farm products.
U.S. biofuels such as ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, renewable natural gas (RNG),
biomethanol, and bio-LNG are commercially available, made-in-America alternatives to
traditional maritime fuels that can meet the IMO’s clean fuel goals. An appropriate NetZero Framework will drive support and expanded demand for U.S. agricultural and waste
resources and therefore support American farmers, biofuel producers, and the rural
communities that power them.
Key benefits of accelerating the use of domestic, bio-derived maritime fuels include:
• Ensuring U.S. dominance in an emerging global market;
• Enabling immediate emissions reductions from commercially available alternatives
to traditional maritime fuels;
• Facilitating U.S. biofuels’role as the foundation for next-generation alternative
maritime fuels;
• Leveraging existing U.S. infrastructure, including ports with biofuel and liquified
natural gas bunkering capabilities; and
• Enhancing the economic resilience of U.S. farmers and rural American
communities.
It is important to note that marine shippers could meet the Net-Zero Framework’s carbon
intensity reduction targets simply by using cost-effective U.S. biofuels that are
commercially available at scale today.
We share concerns about the cost and availability of certain unproven maritime fuel
options that are not economically viable or commercially obtainable in sufficient volumes
today. Forcing the use of such fuels could indeed raise costs for marine shippers,
ultimately increasing prices for consumers. However, with your leadership, the Framework
can be developed in a way that protects U.S. consumers by ensuring the IMO program
embraces a diversity of fuels readily available in the marketplace today and recognizes the
full lifecycle emission reductions achieved by U.S. biofuels. Both factors are key to keeping
costs of compliance low and positioning U.S. fuel producers to lead. We share the
Administration’s concerns with overly restrictive EU policies regarding biofuel feedstocks
and support the Administration’s opposition to these, or similar, restrictions being
incorporated into any IMO Framework.
While these concerns exist, they can be mitigated through the Administration’s thoughtful
leadership, thereby helping U.S. biofuels producers and farmers access the substantial
benefits of developing a robust global maritime market for U.S. biofuels. The near-term IMO
Framework will accelerate demand for U.S. bioenergy-derived resources, catalyze private
sector investment, and advance American energy security and rural jobs while keeping U.S.
marine shippers and exporters competitive within their international peers.
We strongly urge the U.S. to maintain its seat at the IMO table and play a leadership role in
advancing and implementing a workable Net-Zero Framework that opens new market
opportunities for U.S. biofuels made from U.S. agricultural feedstocks and waste streams.
Respectfully submitted,
Advanced Biofuel Association
American Biogas Council
Clean Fuels Alliance America
Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas
Growth Energy
National Corn Growers Association
National Farmers Union
Renewable Fuels Association
U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council
cc: Admiral Kevin Lunday, Acting Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard
The Honorable Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy
The Honorable Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture
The Honorable Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation
The Honorable Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce

October 10, 2025
The Honorable Marco Rubio
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C St NW
Washington, DC 20451
Re: IMO Net-Zero Framework Engagement

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