Environmental Protection Agency
Fight Over Ethanol Escalates as Bankruptcy Refuels Debate (1)
Just in time for Thanksgiving, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency boosted soybean futures Wednesday by raising 2017 biofuel mandates to record levels.
Controversial ballot measure passes with margin of 2,528 votes out of nearly 1 million cast.
Here’s a look at what writers across the country said about that issue, along with crop chemicals and commodity swaps, this weekend.
Ethanol usage for corn is more than double what we export, and that usage can be turned off as easily as a light switch.
The Trump administration on Tuesday advanced a plan meant to expand the U.S. market for corn-based ethanol and place trading restrictions on credits that refiners use to prove they are using biofuel.
Federal scientists have determined that a family of widely used pesticides poses a threat to dozens of endangered and threatened species, including Pacific salmon, Atlantic sturgeon and Puget Sound orcas.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler, is testifying on biofuel during his first hearing as EPA’s top post.