Articles Tagged with ''biofuels''

In a ritual that takes place every four years, presidential candidates have swooped into the Iowa State Fair to mingle with the throngs, and craft their pitches to the state's voters while occasionally addressing rural and agriculture issues that seldom get mentioned later in the campaign.

Agriculture and renewable energy groups have told EPA the agency is pursuing an impractical, single technology solution for auto emissions that fails to account for the benefits of biofuels.

NeEPA on Wednesday announced Renewable Volume Obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard for 2023-2025, bumping the overall blending in 2023 but trimming the mandates for 2024 and 2025 from what the agency proposed in December. 

The Environmental Protection Agency will not publish a multiyear package of biofuel blending targets this week after being granted an extended timeline announced Tuesday.

House Republican leaders are looking to get their agenda back on track after a group of hard-line conservatives angry over the debt ceiling agreement effectively brought action in the chamber to a halt last week. 

House Republicans proposed a tax package Friday that would impose a new excise tax of up to 60% on purchases of U.S. farmland by China and other “countries of concern."

The Biden administration is duplicating last year’s effort to use Clean Air Act emergency waiver authority that will allow consumers to purchase E15 throughout the upcoming summer driving season.

House GOP leaders, struggling to shore up Republican support for their debt-ceiling bill, gave in and moved to preserve some, but not all, of the biofuel provisions that would be repealed or scaled back by the legislation.