There are more rumors circulating about potential cuts in the require volume obligations (RVOs) for biofuels. Those stories have certainly gained the attention of industry supporters on Capitol Hill, especially Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). There have been rumors for months that EPA would reduce the RVO’s for not only 2021 and 2022, but retroactively for 2020 (see our coverage from 3 September here). This issue popped up last week, as a document with proposed cuts circulated, but then there was speculation that the document was sent through a e-mail phishing/spoofing scam as Matt Herrington reported on 22 September. This week, the assertion is that leaked documents are straight from EPA, leading Grassley to say, if the...
Key Market Insights Macros: Inflation isn’t cooling — it’s moving higher again. March PCE inflation (Personal Consumption Expenditures index — the Fed’s preferred measure of inflation) rose 0.7 percent month-over-month, pushing the annual rate to 3.5 percent, the h...
An amendment to the U.S. House farm bill, aiming to remove the Save Our Bacon Act language in Section 12006 that would have stripped language to prohibit California’s Proposition 12, Massachusetts’ Question 3, and up to 500 state agricultural laws across the country, was blocked by...
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Weighing in on strategic realignment
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