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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told lawmakers last week she is putting Chief Agriculture Negotiator Doug McKalip in charge of working with Brazil to end its tariff on U.S. ethanol and now McKalip is preparing to go to there as U.S. tensions remain high over the barrier preventing U.S. exports.
The Iowa House has overwhelmingly passed a bill making it more difficult for companies that want to build pipelines for carbon sequestration to obtain the land necessary to do so.
An Iowa ethanol producer and a company developing sustainable aviation fuel announced a joint agreement Thursday to track and verify carbon intensity scores toward marketing ethanol-based jet fuel through California's low carbon fuel standard.
Some House Republicans, backed by ethanol producers and oil refiners, are trying to block California’s move to ban the sale of new gas-powered passenger vehicles.
An Environmental Protection Agency official says the agency is exploring a variety of solutions that would allow E15 sales to take place in 2023 while also advancing a petition to legalize the sales in the Midwest the following year.
Leaders from the United Soybean Board, American Lung Association and vehicle fleets celebrated the implementation of educational curriculum as part of the inaugural National Bioproducts Day.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says she will do whatever she can, working with other Midwestern governors, to get E15 approved for use this summer. She also describes carbon sequestration as critical to the ethanol industry's future, despite the controversy over pipelines in her state.
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.
Former Sen. James G. Abourezk, D-S.D., who launched a short congressional career with a boost from his state’s rural electric cooperatives during a high-profile referendum campaign in 1969, died in Sioux Falls on Friday, his 92nd birthday.