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Oil, biofuel and farm groups that have historically been in competition for shares of the gasoline market have presented a unified ask to the Trump administration for higher volume obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard. 
While there are signs of significant progress in these groups coming together from a tumultuous first Trump administration, onlookers warn that some key details could still create fractures within the coalition. 

In the first few months of the second Trump administration, there’s been a shift away from sustainability, DEI and climate-related initiatives in terms of federal programming and industry commitments. But agricultural and aviation groups hope Sustainable Aviation Fuel avoids the same fate.

Permitting issues at the state level have been a key barrier to carbon pipeline projects. Now a new law in South Dakota has complicated plans for a 2,500-mile pipeline designed to capture CO2 from 57 ethanol plants in five states.

Lawmakers face a deadline of this Friday to avoid a government shutdown. But the partisan impasse over how to keep departments and agencies funded has yet to be resolved. 

Corn and soybean growers meeting at this year’s Commodity Classic wrestled with the potential impacts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping actions on trade and federal spending cuts.