The nation’s food and agriculture groups are glad to have a familiar face back at the helm of the Department of Agriculture.

Even as President-elect Joe Biden pushes for electric vehicles, the biofuel industry argues he can also make progress on his climate goals by expanding biofuel usage mandates, embracing a low carbon fuel policy and increasing vehicle emissions standards.

Recent court arguments about biofuels policy underscored a battle often fought in courtrooms: weighing semantics against substance.