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The Agriculture Department is seeking input on how to measure reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from crops grown as biofuel feedstocks, part of an effort to increase production of sustainable aviation fuel. 

Iowa has approved Summit Carbon Solutions’ main liquid carbon dioxide pipeline through the state, a significant step forward for the carbon capture and sequestration project.

There’s a big week in Washington ahead of the July 4 recess, including appropriations action on the Hill and potentially, a Supreme Court opinion limiting agencies' discretion to interpret laws.

Software giant Microsoft agreed to buy 40,000 agricultural soil-based carbon credits from Indigo Ag, a single-transaction purchase record.  

Farm groups have joined with the oil industry and independent truck drivers in filing a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s new emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles.

The renewable fuels industry is welcoming a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding EPA’s renewable fuel volume obligations for 2020-2022, including a 250-million-gallon supplemental volume requirement for 2022 that the agency added to comply with a previous decision from the same court.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan faced skepticism from Republican senators Wednesday about the potential for power generators to use carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology to significantly reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.