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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
The California Air Resources Board has approved a 20% limit on credits for renewable diesel produced from soybean, canola and sunflower oils, despite industry complaints that the cap was unnecessary and would increase the state's reliance on foreign feedstocks for biofuels.
Renewable natural gas, or methane from non-fossil sources, continues to penetrate the nation’s energy system, led by a replacement for diesel fuel in California.
The rising demand for renewable fuel and subsequent tax credits to incentivize production has led to a significant spike in imported feedstocks like used cooking oil and tallow, which some say could undermine the domestic oilseed industry and potentially allows some fraudulent materials to enter the market.
The California Air Resources Board’s proposal to eliminate jet fuel’s existing exemption from regulation under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard is being criticized, for very different reasons, by both the airline industry and SAF proponents.
U.S. soybean meal exports are set to reach 13.2 million tons in marketing year 2022/23, valued at almost $7 billion, but government analysts anticipate the next marketing year could produce an even higher total.
An Iowa ethanol producer and a company developing sustainable aviation fuel announced a joint agreement Thursday to track and verify carbon intensity scores toward marketing ethanol-based jet fuel through California's low carbon fuel standard.
Tax credits and funding boosts for on-farm energy programs through the Inflation Reduction Act could incentivize more farmers to install anaerobic digestion systems on their farms, a major part of the Biden Administration’s plan for reducing methane emissions.
Environmental groups are pushing the California Air Resources Board to limit the usage of crop-based biofuels as it considers how to update, and perhaps accelerate, the goals of the state’s successful Low Carbon Fuel Standards program.
The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are aiming to use the agriculture provisions in the Build Back Better bill to jump-start farmers’ work on climate-related farming practices and potentially create permanently higher levels of funding for conservation programs.
