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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, December 04, 2024
Ethanol champions are pushing the Biden Administration to place additional pressure on Brazil as they seek to loosen tariffs that have sent U.S. exports of the biofuel to the South American nation into a tailspin.
Following months of controversy, the Ohio Power Siting Board has given the go-ahead for construction to begin next year on the largest agrivoltaic solar farm in the United States. Agrivoltaics is the dual use of land for agriculture and solar photovoltaic energy generation.
U.S. agricultural exports must contend with a wide range of trade barriers not based in science that impede access to overseas markets, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said in its latest National Trade Estimate Report.
The Agriculture Department on Thursday said it will be distributing $124 million through two programs aimed at expanding renewable energy and fertilizer production.
The biofuel industry is eagerly awaiting the Biden administration’s update of a model that will be used to measure the carbon intensity of sustainable aviation feedstocks and determine their eligibility for a valuable new tax incentives. But industry officials caution that the update is only one in several policy actions that will be needed to get SAF production off the ground.
New regulations from EPA meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions from new passenger cars will inevitably lead to a decrease in demand for ethanol to be blended with gasoline, but the size and speed of that decline remains uncertain.
The Environmental Protection Agency is giving automakers more flexibility to cut tailpipe emissions from light- and medium-duty vehicles than the agency proposed last year, allowing use of a variety of machines to achieve greenhouse gas reductions starting with model year 2027.
The House Agriculture Committee puts a focus this week on China and the potential threat it poses to U.S. agriculture, while Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack heads back to Capitol Hill to defend his spending priorities and policy implementation.
Biomass crops show potential to meet growing demands for biobased products, but producers will not plant them without reliable markets, a new Agriculture Department report says.
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