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Along the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump had vowed to repeal parts of the Biden administration's landmark climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. Now facing a second Trump administration, industry groups are hopeful broad bipartisan support for biofuels and conservation programs in Congress means these initiatives will remain in place. 

Farm groups are re-upping concerns that the next phase of biofuel tax credits could still include bundling requirements that some say could limit opportunities for farmers.

Generation and transmission cooperatives that supply the nation's rural electric cooperatives are moving forward with carbon capture projects, but officials question whether meeting EPA's new standards is achievable. There are wildly varying estimates in the power industry about the cost of using the technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Ethanol plant operators are heavily funding a campaign to protect a new South Dakota law they believe will ease the construction of a carbon dioxide pipeline across the state.

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.

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.