Articles Tagged with ''Renewable Fuel Standard''

Year-round E15 sales, small refinery credits authorized in funding bill

12/17/24 7:49 PM By Noah Wicks

A year-end stopgap spending bill released Tuesday would authorize year-round sales of E-15, while also returning biofuel credits to some small refineries that applied for but were not granted exemptions in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

What Trump’s new cabinet means for ag, food and energy policy

11/27/24 6:09 AM By Lydia Johnson and Philip Brasher

President-elect Donald Trump is setting up a cabinet of unusually diverse views and backgrounds that together could have a far-reaching impact on the food and agriculture sectors. Farm groups will be counting on his pick to lead USDA, Brooke Rollins, to be an advocate for ag within an administration. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum could be a key ally on energy policy.

Economists lower expectations for renewable diesel capacity

11/13/24 6:02 AM By Philip Brasher

Economists at the University of Illinois and USDA’s Economic Research Service are rolling back their estimates of growth in the renewable diesel industry, reflecting lower-than-expected demand for the biofuel.

Court vacates, remands EPA small refinery exemption denials

07/26/24 6:00 PM By Steve Davies

Biofuel leaders expressed disappointment Friday in a ruling from a federal appeals court overturning what they said are “most” EPA decisions in 2022 to deny requests for small refinery exemptions from the Renewable Fuel Standard.

EPA regs on biogas producers upheld by D.C. Circuit

Court also rejects request for stay of power plant rule

07/19/24 1:37 PM By Steve Davies

A federal appeals court has upheld EPA regulations covering biogas producers who want to benefit from the Renewable Fuel Standard, saying that under the law, the agency “must be able to verify that the biogas-derived fuel it is being asked to count as renewable was made with the correct biogas.”

EPA delays 2026 biofuel usage mandates to end of next year

07/10/24 6:08 AM By Philip Brasher

The Environmental Protection Agency says it likely won’t finalize the biofuel usage mandates for 2026 until the end of next year, which is discouraging news for a sector that blames the existing renewable volume obligations for the collapse in credit prices that has hammered many producers.

Oilseed industry concerned that increase in imported feedstock will undermine US producers

07/10/24 6:06 AM By Rebekah Alvey

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.

Daybreak June 25: DOJ commits to ag antitrust enforcement

06/25/24 4:03 PM By Steve Davies, Philip Brasher, Rebekah Alvey, and Jake Zajkowski

The Justice Department is expanding efforts to combat anticompetitive practices in the ag industry.

Renewable fuels industry cheers D.C. Circuit opinion upholding 2020-2022 volume obligations

05/15/24 1:14 PM By Steve Davies

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.

GREET’s just the start. Some in biofuel industry look to EPA action on jet fuel, too

03/27/24 6:25 AM By Philip Brasher

The biofuel industry is eagerly awaiting the Biden administration’s update of a model that will be used to measure the carbon intensity of sustainable aviation feedstocks and determine their eligibility for a valuable new tax incentives. But industry officials caution that the update is only one in several policy actions that will be needed to get SAF production off the ground.

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12.13.2024

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Dec. 13, 2024: Sen. Boozman on farm bill, RFK, Rollins

Republicans will take control of the Senate in January, making John Boozman chairman of the Senate Ag Committee. We asked him about his plans for the committee, including collaborating with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who's in line to be the ranking member, and how Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees may influence agriculture.

Then, Laura Wood from LWP Consulting and Invariant’s Danielle Beck discuss the contentious House Ag Committee ranking member race and the future of the farm bill in a new Congress.

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