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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
The renewable fuels industry is welcoming a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding EPA’s renewable fuel volume obligations for 2020-2022, including a 250-million-gallon supplemental volume requirement for 2022 that the agency added to comply with a previous decision from the same court.
The Biden administration’s long-awaited guidance for a new tax subsidy for sustainable aviation fuel does little by itself to jump-start the production of SAF made from ag feedstocks like corn ethanol. The most important set of rules are yet to come.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s long-awaited action on a looming petition that would authorize the year-round sale of higher ethanol blends came Thursday, but with a caveat that frustrated the biofuels industry.
Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper says 2024 will be “one of the most pivotal and consequential years” the ethanol industry has ever experienced.”
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has filed a motion for summary judgment to compel EPA to finalize action ahead of the 2024 summer driving season to allow Midwest states to sell E15 year-round.
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.
History is repeating itself in the legal battle over the “waters of the U.S.” rule. Just as in 2015, when courts issued repeated rulings blocking implementation of the Obama administration’s rule, courts have again acceded to requests from states and industry groups to enjoin the Biden administration’s rule.
The Environmental Protection Agency has rolled out its long-awaited response to a petition that would expand sales of higher ethanol blends, but its proposal includes a delay that has already angered the biofuels industry.
Senators and witnesses at a hearing Wednesday expressed sharp differences over the need for – and impacts of – a potential national low carbon fuel standard.
