In 2005 Congress passed the Energy Policy Act (EPA) which created the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) statutory schedule. The 2005 EPA was amended it in 2007 with the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) which expanded those categories. The bottom line is that renewable fuels were scheduled to increase from 4 billion gallons in 2006 to 36 billion gallons this year. While conventional ethanol and biomass based diesel have fulfilled those volumes, the category of advanced biofuels has not, resulting in the statutory volumes being missed since 2014.
Under the statute, EPA had the authority to “reset” the RFS. That authority allows the EPA Administrator to adjust the applicable volumes of the RFS for future years start...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
