Mobile menu trigger

Issues

Learn how we engage with policy makers to ensure safe, reliable, and affordable energy for the future as demand continues to grow.

Access & Production Trade & Global Markets Fuels & Refining Infrastructure & Permitting Tax Policy Climate Policy Industry Safety

Energy Insights

API's Energy Insights Hub provides updated statistics, data visualizations, timely analysis, and in-depth reports on all aspects of the oil and natural gas industry.

Charts & Analysis Industry Explained Studies Statistics

Global Industry Services

API’s Global Industry Services drives safety and efficiency within the oil and gas industry through standards, certifications, assessments, training and more.

Request a Quote

Certifications Directories

Worldwide Representatives

Standards Process Safety Site Assessment Program Pipeline SMS Assessment Program Pipeline SMS Contractor Assessment Program Center for Offshore Safety (COS) Individual Certification Programs (ICP) Training API Monogram and APIQR API Repair and Remanufacture Program 19B Perforator Program Engine Oil (EOLCS) Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF)

Liquid Fuels Groups Announce Progress on E15, Small Refinery Exemption Reform

Issues / News & Press Releases / Liquid Fuels Groups Announce Progress on E15, Small Refinery Exemption Reform

WASHINGTON, December 4, 2025 — The American Petroleum Institute (API) today joined 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. In a letter to President Donald Trump, the organizations urged policymakers to advance legislation in support of a stable, efficient fuels marketplace

"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," the organizations wrote.

API previously urged congressional leadership to adopt a more balanced and up-to-date approach to E15 legislation given recent changes in the fuels landscape.

The letter also urges the White House to support legislative action providing lasting certainty to this issue and reforming the Small Refinery Exemption (SRE) program.

"The current SRE structure has encouraged a system of winners and losers that distorts the marketplace, creates instability, and ultimately, hurts consumers," the organizations wrote. "A more consistent and narrowly applied SRE structure would create a far more predictable regulatory environment." 

Other signatories on the letter included Growth Energy, National Association of Convenience Stores, NATSO, Representing America's Travel Centers and Truck Stops, Renewable Fuels Association, and SIGMA: America's Leading Fuel Marketers.

Click here to view the letter.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) represents all segments of America’s oil and natural gas industry, supporting nearly 11 million U.S. jobs. With approximately 600 members, API companies produce, process, and distribute the majority of the nation’s energy. Founded in 1919, API has developed over 800 standards to enhance operational and environmental safety, efficiency, and sustainability.

###