Renewable Fuel Standard

The Ag Department urges increase funding on opioid crisis. Increase spending on programs and crop insurance to support cover crops and EPA proposal.

**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...

Canada's G3 Global Holdings has announced it will start construction of a grain terminal at Port Metro Vancouver in March, committing to a project that’s been under consideration since last year. G3, formerly known as the Canadian Wheat Board, is a partnership of Saudi Arabian agriculture company SALIC and U...

Some ethanol interests are understandably concerned about President-elect Trump's selection of Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt as head of the EPA, considering his previous opposition to the Renewable Fuel Standard. But Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Trump's ambassador to China, got his assurances about Pruitt from the president-elect himself...

DuPont announced Wednesday that former USDA deputy secretary Krysta Haden has joined the company as the vice president of Public Policy & Chief Sustainability Officer. Harden left USDA at the end of February and will now lead DuPont’s public policy and government affairs strategies, as well as its sustainability, philanthropy, product stewardship and global regulatory activities, according to

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...

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...