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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, December 04, 2024
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 - A new analysis released by the Agriculture Department finds that greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) associated with corn-based ethanol can be 43 percent lower than gasoline.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 - In addition to keeping wholesale power prices relatively stable in 2016, the low cost of natural gas contributed to a shift toward increased natural gas-fired electricity generation, largely at the expense of coal-fired generation, according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 – Democrats and Republicans at a Senate hearing today offered distinctly different visions of the role of the Environmental Protection Agency if Donald Trump nominee Scott Pruitt is confirmed to lead the agency.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - Restoring Americans’ trust in federal land management agencies will be at the top of Ryan Zinke’s priority list if confirmed as Interior Secretary, the Montana congressman told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Tuesday.
A Department of Agriculture lifecycle analysis of ethanol`s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) shows a favorable comparison to gasoline, and indicates a positive disparity between the two could continue to grow.
President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Congress should scrap a wide range of laws and regulations that impinge on free choice, including the ethanol mandate and biotech crop oversight, says a libertarian Washington group with oil, coal and financial industry ties.
In his final days in the White House, President Obama clearly is determined to do whatever he can to make sure renewable energy continues on its current growth path.
A survey taken after the election shows strong support for ethanol among Trump voters in six battleground states in the Midwest, Growth Energy, an ethanol producers group, the survey of 3,000 Trump voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana and Minnesota fou
In an effort to drive down the cost of technologies needed to reuse, recycle and remanufacture materials such as metals, fibers, polymers and electronic waste, the Energy Department (DOE) has announced the creation of its Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emission
The U.S. exported 121.9 million gallons (MG) of ethanol in November, the third-largest monthly total in five years, according to government trade data analyzed by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).
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