April 27, 2026. Roeslein Renewables announced its support for a new national push to secure a central role for American made biofuels in the future of global maritime shipping, following Roeslein Renewables’ decision to sign onto a joint letter organized by the American Biofuels Maritime Initiative (ABMI) to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ahead of this week’s upcoming negotiations at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) meetings in London. The effort is aimed at ensuring that global maritime decarbonization also translates into durable new demand for American biofuels and additional income streams for U.S. farmers and rural communities.
In the ABMI letter, leading biofuel and agricultural stakeholders urge the Trump administration to champion a global maritime fuels framework that is technology neutral, grounded in real world affordability and availability, and explicitly open to commercially proven solutions such as ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, renewable natural gas (RNG), and Bio-LNG. Roeslein joined this coalition to underscore that a pragmatic IMO outcome can support U.S. climate, trade, energy, and infrastructure goals while expanding opportunities for domestic biofuel producers and the agricultural and waste feedstock suppliers that serve them.
“For producers on the ground, the question is whether emerging maritime fuel standards will recognize the low carbon fuels U.S. farmers and producers are already delivering,” said Bryan Sievers, Director of Government Relations at Roeslein Renewables. “Bio-LNG made from farm based renewable natural gas can be used as a drop in fuel in existing LNG capable vessels and bunkering infrastructure, and biofuels are already produced at scale in rural America. If the United States secures a technology neutral framework that includes these options, policy will be aligning with solutions that are ready today, opening a meaningful new outlet for existing production, supporting rural balance sheets, and reinforcing America’s role in a strategic sector of the global economy.”