Environmental Protection Agency
Build Back Better heads to the Senate while Conservation Credit Corporation allocates $27 billion to conservation. Plus, when will the EPA announce RFS mandates?
EPA released an environmental impact evaluation of commonly used herbicides such as glyphosate and atrazine. The report released Nov. 12 has several ag groups frustrated, even questioning “the science” EPA used.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework is scheduled to be signed by President Biden this afternoon. The Build Back Better plan has a way to go, but the White House hopes to have it approved as late as this weekend.
Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer reports EPA Administrator Michael Regan says the biofuels blending requirements won’t favor oil or agriculture, comments that lead to more chatter a RFS announcement may finally be coming.
The $1.2T infrastructure bill passed through the House following months of negotiation. Farm country can expect $550 billion in new spending. AgriTalk’s Chip Flory and Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer take a closer look.
A group of U.S. Democratic lawmakers called on President Joe Biden to halt a plan to slash the amount of biofuels that oil refiners must blend into their fuel, according to a letter dated Monday.
On Wednesday, Reuters reported EPA is mulling cuts to biofuel blending levels, calling it a win for big oil. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley commented on the RFS rumors on AgriTalk.
The EPA is proposing big cuts to the nation’s biofuel blending requirements for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, according to a document seen by Reuters, in a move that is sure to anger farmers and biofuel producers.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday ordered his administration to find ways to ensure people are protected from extreme heat, including through work-related rules and other cooling efforts.
Reports last week claimed EPA was prepared to suggest lowering the renewable fuel volume requirements below 2020 levels. Monday, biofuels groups provided some clarity on what are the facts of the issue today.
The EPA is expected to recommend to the White House lowering the nation’s biofuel blending mandates below 2020 levels, in what would be a blow to the biofuels industry, two sources familiar with the matter said Friday.
EPA is banning the use on food crops of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. The decision is a victory for environmental activists who have fought to stop the use of the chemical that is applied to row and produce crops.
Biofuels groups are asking for a rehearing on a recent appeals court decision that blocked the sale of E15 year-round. The approval of E15 sales during the summer driving season was made by the Trump Administration.
Solar could supply more than 40% of the nation’s electricity by 2035 if Congress adopts policies like tax credits for renewable energy projects and component factories, according to a memo by the Department of Energy.
U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil Corp, along with Chevron Corp, is seeking to bulk up in the burgeoning renewable fuels space by finding ways to make such products at existing facilities, Reuters sources said.
Biden signed an executive order to create a zero-emissions auto fleet by boosting the sale of electric vehicles. The plan also updated emissions standards for light cars and trucks but made no mention of ethanol.
President Biden will sign an executive order on Thursday aimed at making half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles and will propose new vehicle-emission rules to cut pollution through 2026.
A trade group representing some of America’s biggest baked goods companies is urging Biden to ratchet back its biofuel ambitions, arguing using fuel made from crops could raise the cost of donuts, bread and other foods.
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.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit vacated three small refinery exemptions (SREs) on Wednesday. The now vacated exemptions were granted by former President Trump’s administration a day before he left office.
EPA’s biofuel blending mandates for 2021 and 2022 are likely to be in line with those of 2020 as the agency accounts for weaker fuel demand since the onset of the pandemic, three sources familiar with the matter said.