The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released aggregated information on small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuels Standard the agency issued over the last couple of years. A DTN report says they’ve…
Bayer Says Dicamba Decision Likely Coming Soon
The world’s largest agribusiness is predicting the Environmental Protection Agency will decide soon on the future of dicamba. Bayer expects the EPA to issue a renewal and an updated license…
Growth Energy Welcomes Congressional Support for Year-Round E15
…vital that the EPA uphold President Trump’s commitment to American biofuels and immediately tear down outdated regulatory barriers against the summertime sale of E15,” Skor says. “Opening the market to…
Refiner Waivers Could Cost Ethanol Industry $20 Billion
…for EPA to reallocate small refiner exemptions to larger refiners to ensure statutory RFS volumes are maintained. RFA Chief Economist Scott Richman says the research: “Clearly shows that demand destruction…
Farm, Ethanol Groups Urge President to Restore Integrity to RFS, Allow Year-Round E15 Sales
…Thousands of biofuel manufacturing and farming jobs in America’s Heartland are now at risk due to the EPA’s recent mismanagement of the RFS and inexplicable delay in removing the de…
University Analysis: EPA’s Refiner Waivers Could Cost Ethanol Industry $20 Billion in Losses
…demand and nearly $20 billion in sales revenue over the next six years if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues its current practice of exempting dozens of small refiners from…
Lawsuit Filed Over Oil Refinery Waivers
…the knowledge of stakeholders, and left billions of gallons of ethanol out of the nation’s fuel supply. The ethanol industry, farm groups, and others are suing the EPA separately for…
State Officials Talk Dicamba in 2019
…Officials want the EPA to set an early-season cutoff date, but only if states are permitted to use Special Local Needs labels to adjust those dates. These recommendations will carry…
Environmental Groups Urge EPA to Revoke Dicamba Approval
…the EPA to announce its decision on the renewal of dicamba registration by October. The expectation is that the EPA will approve the registration for dicamba. The environmental groups want…
Food Safety Professionals Ensure that “What’s in Your Meat” is Safe and Wholesome
…and poultry products to the grocery store. When testing for drug residues, we set the allowable levels to half of the acceptable level set by FDA and EPA. FSIS also…
Beck’s, Stine, Seek Further Dicamba Restrictions
…the EPA is expected to issue a decision on renewing the registration within weeks. Monsanto expects the EPA will extend the approval. Source: National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Growth Energy Comments on Proposed 2019 RVO Targets
…asking the EPA to make the proposed numbers real by accounting for lost gallons which were caused by small refinery exemptions and reallocating those gallons to other refineries to fulfill…
Continued Abuse of Small Refiner Waivers Renders Proposed 2019 RFS Volumes ‘Meaningless,’ RFA Tells EPA
…of the 2019 proposed volumes are flawed and indefensible,” RFA President and CEO Bob Dinneen wrote in comments to EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler. EPA can “ensure that the RVOs…
Chlorpyrifos Registrations Dead in 60 Days
…days to cancel all chlorpyrifos registrations. The EPA had already been in the process of banning chlorpyrifos at the end of the Obama administration. However, former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt…