Environmental Protection Agency
EPA announced it’s creating a durable definition of WOTUS by reverting back to the pre-Obama era rule as a framework. EPA is encouraging farmers and ranchers to weigh in during a series of public meetings in August.
As gasoline demand makes history, two court decisions put ethanol’s optimism on a detour in the short-term. That’s as the biofuels industry say they’ll continue to work in Washington, D.C. to make the case for ethanol.
AgriTalk’s Chip Flory and Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer are joined by Emily Skor, CEO of Growth Energy. They discuss recent court decisions impacting the ethanol industry, how to expedite higher blends and more.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday bolstered a bid by small oil refineries to seek exemptions from a federal law requiring increasing levels of ethanol and other renewable fuels to be blended into their products.
Renewable fuels groups were dealt a blow Friday as the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision to overturn a 2020 appellate court ruling that said EPA could only grant waivers to refiners that had previously received them.
A report issued on Monday describes at least three ways EPA stumbled in its policies and practices.
The EPA and Department of the Army announced a plan on Wednesday to initiate a new rulemaking process to restore the protections that were in place prior to the 2015 WOTUS implementation.
Commodity markets were under pressure Friday. The drop was partially due to a report the Biden Administration is considering ways to provide relief to U.S. oil refiners from biofuel blending mandates.
“I like to say you’re going to have to have a permit to do normal farming decisions,” he told Chip Flory, host of AgriTalk.
Billions of dollars in federal investments and tax credits to boost demand for U.S. biofuels will be part of two bills that Democratic lawmakers will introduce to the U.S. Congress, two sources said.