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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 16, 2024
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2017 – The Environmental Protection Agency was wrong in its interpretation of “inadequate domestic supply” when decreasing required renewable fuel blending, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit ruled Friday.
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2017 – As procedural activity on a bill that would expand sales of higher ethanol blends quiets, opposition to the measure is getting louder.
WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 - The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public hearing regarding the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program on Aug. 1.
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2017 - The American Petroleum Institute (API) says that the Environmental Protection Agency did not go far enough in reducing 2018 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) blending volumes.
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - In a win for corn ethanol producers, EPA is proposing to require refiners to use another 15 billion gallons of conventional ethanol next year while maintaining the 2018 biodiesel target set by the Obama administration.
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2017 - Since the original Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was authorized under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, “tremendous progress” has been made toward its goals of energy security, clean air and boosting local economies, according to an analysis by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).
NEVADA, IOWA, May 5, 2017 – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue highlighted the benefits of renewable energy and the need for export markets in a Friday speech to Iowa producers.
Several years of low commodity prices are making life difficult on the farm, and small towns across the country face serious challenges to modernize their infrastructure.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - A bipartisan group of 23 senators, led by Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., have sent a letter to President Trump urging him to maintain the point of obligation under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and reject any proposed changes that would “upend the current successful system.”
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22, 2017 - U.S. imports of biomass-based diesel, which include biodiesel and renewable diesel, increased by 65 percent in 2016 to reach a record level of 916 million gallons, according to a new report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
