Environmental Protection Agency
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) gets a lot of headline time in agriculture as it directly correlates with corn and soybeans. Understanding the dynamics of RFS and the role government agencies play is another ballgame.
EPA believes the current pesticide approval system has major “unsustainable and legally tenuous” setbacks. Courts currently dictate ESA cases for the EPA, but this new workplan will allow the Agency to work alone.
Stakeholders applaud President Biden following months of pleading for increased biofuel availability while others set the record straight on biofuel impacts on the climate.
The agency says it will allow 31 facilities to meet their 2018 obligations without purchasing credits to show compliance with the law due to “extenuating circumstances.”
AgriTalk Host Chip Flory says some people would argue E25 or E30 is the proper blending target.
John Duarte faces millions of dollars in fines for breaching the Clean Water Act by plowing 450 acres of farmland. If Duarte ultimately loses in court, his fall will affect the property rights of landowners and farmers across the U.S.
EPA said there was little risk to most people from exposure to dicamba, though it identified six additional instances in which workers handling the herbicide should wear a respirator along with the required outfit.
John Phipps says he was aware that the West and especially the southern Plains had high average wind speeds, he didn’t realize the Midwest was also a good place to site wind turbines, especially the newer, larger ones.
The lawsuit claims the EPA failed to “fully assess” the affect increased corn for ethanol production will have on endangered species, including land conversion and increased fertilizer and pesticide use.
U.S. climate legislation collapsed last week, and analysts say it could hamper the development of clean-burning transportation fuels. Biofuels groups were banking on the legislation to boost investment in fuels like SAF.