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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
NEWTON, Iowa, Oct. 10, 2017 – U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley defended the biodiesel industry Tuesday at Renewable Energy Group’s biodiesel plant in Newton, Iowa.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - Nominees for EPA offices with significant influence over American agriculture played things close to the vest today when questioned about the Renewable Fuel Standard and chemical regulation at a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 – Looking back on statements made during the nomination process for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt offers a stark contrast to comments made in the last week.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2017 – A notice from the Environmental Protection Agency has the biofuels community up in arms as they face the prospect of a potential hit to renewable fuel blending levels.
WASHINGTON, August 2, 2017 - Fresh on the heels of a courtroom success, a wide swath of renewable fuel stakeholders would like to have their feedstock and make more advanced biofuel out of it, too.
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2017 – The Environmental Protection Agency was wrong in its interpretation of “inadequate domestic supply” when decreasing required renewable fuel blending, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit ruled Friday.
WASHINGTON, July 20, 2017 – As procedural activity on a bill that would expand sales of higher ethanol blends quiets, opposition to the measure is getting louder.
WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 - The Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public hearing regarding the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program on Aug. 1.
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2017 - The American Petroleum Institute (API) says that the Environmental Protection Agency did not go far enough in reducing 2018 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) blending volumes.
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - In a win for corn ethanol producers, EPA is proposing to require refiners to use another 15 billion gallons of conventional ethanol next year while maintaining the 2018 biodiesel target set by the Obama administration.
