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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
The window for public input on reforms to the nation’s biofuel policy has closed, giving the Environmental Protection Agency a limited window of time to finalize changes before a June 1 deadline.
Ethanol industry groups welcomed the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule that would allow for year-around sale of E15, but refiners were divided over accompanying proposals to reform the biofuel credit market.
In just a few short years, congressional biofuel blending targets will disappear, leaving it up to future leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency to decide what's next.
The Environmental Protection Agency could have a different tool in its toolbox as biofuel and energy interests continue to debate the role of small refiner exemptions in the Renewable Fuel Standard: keep offering the waivers, but on a partial basis.
Ethanol advocates applauded a Trump administration proposal released today that would freeze fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks through model year 2026.
Growth Energy will soon have a new vice president of communications and public affairs. She’s Jennifer Morris, who previously served as senior vice president of corporate and public affairs at Edelman.
More than a decade ago, Congress created the Renewable Fuel Standard in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and expand the nation’s renewable fuels sector while reducing reliance on imported oil.
Biofuel advocates blasted the Environmental Protection Agency's latest proposal to set targets for production of renewable fuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard because the agency did not try to reallocate renewable gallons left unblended when refineries were granted waivers from RFS requirements.
One would think a state’s effort to introduce more low-carbon fuels into the gas tanks of consumers would be cheered by renewable fuels stakeholders of all shapes and sizes. But one would be wrong.