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Renewable natural gas, or methane from non-fossil sources, continues to penetrate the nation’s energy system, led by a replacement for diesel fuel in California. 

The European Commission is seeking a one-year delay in the implementation of an anti-deforestation law with implications for U.S. beef and soy producers as it looks for answers to a flurry of questions from the U.S. and its other trade partners about how such a policy would work.

East Coast dockworkers ended their strike after reaching a “tentative agreement on wages” with the United States Maritime Alliance, the International Longshoremen’s Association and USMX said in a joint statement Thursday. The two sides have extended their current contract and will keep negotiating until Jan. 15 to finalize a new one.

Parts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee are experiencing devastating crop and farm damage from Hurricane Helene, which touched land on Florida’s panhandle Thursday.

Roughly 25,000 dock workers went on strike early Tuesday morning leaving ports stretching from Maine to Texas unable to move containers of poultry, soybeans, animal feed, cotton, meats, bananas and other agricultural products onto and off of ships. 

U.S. ethanol exports increased by 38% through July to a cumulative 1 billion gallons, government data show, on the demand in many countries for lower-carbon fuel blendstocks to meet environmental goals.

The Colombian government has angered dairy groups by placing a 4.86% tariff on imports of U.S. milk powder for the next four months while it finishes investigating claims of domestic harm.