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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
WASHINGTON, March 3, 2017 – The Senate today confirmed Rick Perry as the nation’s 14th Secretary of Energy, a department he once vowed to abolish. He was later sworn in following the 62-37 vote.
WASHINGTON, March 2, 2017 -- Fuels America, a coalition of biofuels advocates, says it has “severed ties” with the Renewable Fuels Association, accusing the group of siding with billionaire investor and refinery owner Carl Icahn in a plan – denied by the White House -- that would “permanently destabilize the Renewable Fuel Standard.”
WASHINGTON, Mar. 2, 2017 - U.S. crude oil production increased for the second consecutive month in November 2016, the first time this has occurred since early 2015...
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1, 2017 - U.S. ethanol production set a record of 15.33 billion gallons (bg) in 2016, according to data released Tuesday by the Energy Information Administration.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1, 2017 - The U.S. ethanol industry added $42.1 billion to the nation’s gross domestic product and supported nearly 340,000 jobs in 2016, according to a new study released by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA).
WASHINGTON, March 1, 2017 - The Senate confirmed Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke as Interior secretary, putting him in charge of managing 400 million acres of Western lands, much of that critical to ranchers and energy interests, and enforcing the Endangered Species Act.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2017 – Talk of a “not negotiable” executive order that would change the point of obligation under the Renewable Fuel Standard has sent the renewable fuels industry in a tizzy.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2017 - New EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has only been on the job a few days, but he’s already making big plans for changes at the agency he sued 14 times as former attorney general of Oklahoma.
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