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Showing posts with label biodiesel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biodiesel. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Trump administration announces sharp increase in biodiesel fuel requirements, giving corn and soybean farmers a lift

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The Trump administration announced biodiesel quota increases last week, which will give a much-needed financial lift to some corn and soybea...
Thursday, April 06, 2023

Farmers are bullish on biodiesel vs. ethanol, but biodiesel's five-year outlook is not as clear to them, Purdue reports

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As demand for biodiesel increases, it may outpace ethanol as a renewable energy source. "Farmers are far more bullish about the chances...
Monday, September 30, 2019

After 18th ethanol plant idles, state corn-grower associations ask Trump to uphold the Renewable Fuel Standard

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As corn growers await a biofuels deal President Trump has promised, another ethanol plant has shut down: the 90-million-gallon-a year plant...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Writer says Grassley could throw a big wrench into Trump's plans if biofuels demands are not met

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We reported yesterday that Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa threatened to hold up President Trump's nominees for the Environmenta...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Sen. Grassley says he and other Corn Belt senators could hold up Trump nominees over biofuels issue

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We reported last week that Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa was outraged over President Trump's proposed rollback of the Renewab...
Friday, October 13, 2017

EPA plan to scale back renewable fuels puts Trump at odds with Grassley, rest of Iowa delegation

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The Environmental Protection Agency' s plan to scale back the amount of renewable fuels that have to be blended with gasoline and diese...
Friday, October 07, 2016

Weed could boost agriculture in Midwest while producing environmentally friendly biofuel

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Pennycress field (Arvegenix photo by Jerry Steiner) A weed once thought to be a nuisance could be the new crop to boost agriculture in ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Hawaii biodiesel refinery is first U.S. biofuels plant to be certified as sustainable by industry group

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A Hawaii plant that turns 13,000 gallons a day of waste cooking oils, animal fats, fruit and seeds into diesel fuel has been certified th...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Officials at odds over Renewable Fuel Standard rules but agree that EPA is dragging its feet

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Industry officials on both sides of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) argument are at odds over Environmental Protection Agency 's propo...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Biodiesel industry wants EPA to raise production levels to 1.7 billion gallons per year

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While the biodiesel $1-per-gallon tax credit—which has expired three times in the last three years, including on Dec. 31, 2013—will likely b...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013

EPA finalizes Renewable Fuel Standard percentages in four categories; backs off some goals

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The Environmental Protection Agency 's "final 2013 overall volumes and standards require 16.55 billion gallons of renewable fuels...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Corn Belt expands northwest into marginal grassland, pinching perennial-crop biofuel hopes

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High corn and soybean prices are driving conversion of grassland, some of it marginal, to cropland in the western Corn Belt, posing the t...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

Wal-Mart joins sustainable agriculture alliance

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's largest retailer, has joined an alliance of other Fortune 500 companies who say they want to make ...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Ethanol subsidy and tariff to be extended

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Congressional lawmakers have reached an agreement to extend the 45 cents per gallon subsidy for ethanol for one year and continue a tariff o...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Republican congressman from Iowa says farmers should expect spending cuts in 2012 Farm Bill

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Farmers may see cuts in some agriculture programs as Congress looks to trim back federal spending in the 2012 Farm Bill, warns one Iowa legi...
Friday, August 06, 2010

Genetically modified canola plants breed in wild

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A new study suggest genetically modified farm crops are spreading into the wild. "A survey of North Dakota has turned up hundreds of ge...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Eastern Kentuckian returns home to show what locals can do to help revitalize Appalachia

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Much has been made of the "brain drain" taking rural America's best students to cities, but one Eastern Kentucky man is hoping...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Deficit concerns complicate incentives for biofuels

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The biofuels industry is lobbying Congress to renew or start several subsidies it says are needed to protect the industry's future, but ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Biofuel of diesel and beef byproduct will power passenger train through cattle country

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Amtrak and the Oklahoma and Texas transportation departments hyave announced a year-long test to see if the Heartland Flyer, a passenger tr...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Biodiesel struggles to gain truckers' approval

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The continued reluctance of truckers to use biodiesel continues to pose a significant threat to the renewable fuel, and one trucking company...