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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Nine Republican lawmakers are seeking additional insight into the USDA’s $45.6 million investment in Pure Prairie Poultry, which closed early this month, and the steps the agency has taken to help growers.
Rural power utilities apprehensively await litigation in a federal appeals court over a new EPA rule that requires the use of expensive carbon capture technology for existing coal-fired generation. CCS is considered the best available technology, and EPA expects that it can capture 90% of plant emissions.
Gov. Gavin Newsom directed the California Air Resources Board to accelerate its regulatory review of the E15 blend of gasoline in hopes that it will lower fuel prices. California is the only state that does not allow E15 sales.
Farm groups and other agribusiness interests and rural electric cooperatives have given nearly $27 million congressional campaigns so far, with nearly two-thirds of that amount going to Republicans.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether challenges to EPA small refinery exemption decisions can be heard in federal appeals courts other than the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The goal of turning corn ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel is a little closer with the announcement that Gevo has secured a conditional, $1.46 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy. It’s the department’s first such commitment for an alcohol-to-jet fuel facility.
Hurricane Milton, the fourth hurricane to strike Florida agriculture in 14 months, damaged citrus and other specialty crops as well as dairy operations and phosphate infrastructure.