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The USDA announced last week it plans to pull an interim Final Farmer Fair Practice Rule. Anne Dawson, with the USDA Foreign Ag Service, has been named recipient of the U.S. Meat Export Federation’s 2017 Distinguished Service Award. Four GOP governors have written to President Trump with concerns about the EPA’s recently proposed reductions to the Renewable Fuels Standard.

Organic farming is taking steps to reduce organic fraud. U.S. senator defending the biodiesel industry.

**The U.S. exit from the Paris Accord climate change agreement will have no impact on biofuels. The American Coalition for Ethanol’s Brian Jennings says President Trump's announcement won't affect renewable fuels because commitments made in the accord were based on the clean power plan and automobile fuel economy rules...

**President Trump is being asked by U.S. dairy groups to take immediate action against Canada’s trade policies. Last week’s request by National Milk Producers, the International Dairy Foods Association, state Ag departments, and the U...

**Fuels America, a coalition of biofuels advocates, says it has “severed ties” with the Renewable Fuels Association, accusing the group of siding with billionaire investor and refinery owner Carl Icahn in a plan, denied by the White House, that would “permanently destabilize the Renewable Fuel Standard...

**The EPA will write a new definition of “waters of the U.S.” rules that is less expansive than the Obama administration’s rule that the agency is withdrawing. That was the word from EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Thursday in an exclusive Agri-Pulse interview...

Whether it’s past achievements or bipartisan Senate support, at least one insider expects biodiesel and other advanced biofuels to continue their rapid growth. Founder and CEO of the government relations firm Playmaker Strategies, Larry Schafer is confident despite the fact the White House website archived all of the Obama administration's energy and climate change documents and posted President T

A coalition last week filed a petition in a U.S appeals court to review the Renewable Fuel Standard. The groups are asking the courts to review the EPA’s RFS volumes for 2014, 2015 and 2016, announced last year after the EPA proposed significant drops in the volumes...

SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing Co., Alaska Airlines and the Port of Seattle are partnering on a $250,000 study to explore how to bring more biofuel to airplanes at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Executives for the companies and port signed an agreement Wednesday, saying the study will help stimulate production of alternatives to conventional jet fuel. The...

The EPA has announced higher volumes of renewable fuel than the levels EPA proposed in June under the Renewable Fuel Standard. While the levels are an increase from the previous proposal by the EPA, they are still below the statutory levels...