House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) directed Congressional Committee chairmen yesterday to begin drafting articles of impeachment against President Trump. A vote on impeachment could come before the end of the year and the proceedings continue to suck energy and momentum out of other key policy issues. Here is a look at those issues: RFS: The White House has been working on the supplemental rule under the RFS to reallocate future small refinery exemptions (SRE). As we have reported, both the biofuels and the petroleum industry are finding fault with the plan. EPA has already missed the 30 November statutory deadline for announcing the 2020 required volumes of biofuel blending due to the supplemental rule. The agency is e...
From WPI Consulting
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.