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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, December 04, 2024
WASHINGTON, March 1, 2017 - The Senate confirmed Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke as Interior secretary, putting him in charge of managing 400 million acres of Western lands, much of that critical to ranchers and energy interests, and enforcing the Endangered Species Act.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2017 – Talk of a “not negotiable” executive order that would change the point of obligation under the Renewable Fuel Standard has sent the renewable fuels industry in a tizzy.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2017 - New EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has only been on the job a few days, but he’s already making big plans for changes at the agency he sued 14 times as former attorney general of Oklahoma.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2017 - Don’t count on Congress launching a second push to pass the comprehensive energy bill that died just short of the finish line last year.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2017 - Iowa farmers challenging construction of the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline on their land will appeal to the Supreme Court after a Polk County district judge upheld the Iowa Utilities Board’s approval of the decision.
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21, 2017 – With farm incomes on the decline and corn stocks at a 30-year high, there is a “sense of unease spreading across rural America,” noted Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Bob Dinneen during his keynote address today.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2017 - During a campaign stop in Iowa last year, then GOP candidate Donald Trump made it very clear that he supported the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). But as president, a number of his key advisors and cabinet members have strong ties to the oil industry. And that has some RFS supporters worried
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2017 - Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners received final approval from the Army Corps of Engineers last week to lay pipe under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota and complete the 1,200-mile pipeline, which would move North Dakota oil to a shipping point in Illinois.
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