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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Biofuel groups are frustrated election-year politics could be getting in the way of time-sensitive Environmental Protection Agency action on renewable fuel policy that needs to be finalized by the end of the year, and fear voter accountability in farm country will be lost if the agency delays acting before the November election.
The House Appropriations Committee has approved $69.5 million to be put toward researching and preventing the spread of Huanglongbing, or citrus greening disease, in the United States.
The 1996 Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to repeal regulations it doesn’t like, was once a little-known, rarely used legislative tool. No more.
The Democratic-controlled House approved a package of fiscal 2021 spending bills Friday that would provide about $1 billion for rural broadband expansion while blocking the Trump administration from cutting food stamp rolls and carrying out key regulatory relief measures.
Senators are privately discussing agricultural provisions in the next major coronavirus relief bill, which Republican leaders hope to get passed by the August recess.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler says there are a handful of unanswered questions in the effort by small refineries looking to secure relief from past blending requirements of the nation’s biofuel mandate.
The lack of respirators, needed to apply certain pesticides, is cause for concern in farm country, but how much of a concern depends on whom you ask and where they’re located.
A letter issued last week by a bipartisan group of senators urging the Environmental Protection Agency to not grant petitions for Small Refinery Exemptions under the Renewable Fuel Standard is being followed by another from the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition.
