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New environmental rules expected to further lift diesel prices

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm November 19, 2019

MarketsFarm — Diesel prices in Canada and the U.S. have increased marginally ahead of winter, which is expected for this time of year — but in the New Year, prices on the farm will likely be higher than normal, as the ocean freight industry adopts new environmental standards. While a farmer’s demand for diesel is […] Read more

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Trump’s EPA promises biofuel boost, angers Big Oil

By Humeyra Pamuk, Stephanie Kelly October 4, 2019

Washington/New York | Reuters — The Trump administration on Friday unveiled a plan to boost U.S. biofuels consumption starting next year to help struggling farmers, a move that cheered the agriculture industry but triggered a backlash from Big Oil. The plan would require an unspecified increase in the amount of ethanol that oil refiners must […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. EPA changed rules to help refiners get biofuel waivers, suit alleges

By Jarrett Renshaw March 7, 2019

Reuters — U.S. environmental regulators quietly changed the way they assess applications from refineries for waivers from the nation’s biofuels law, making it possible for highly profitable plants to secure lucrative exemptions, according to court documents filed by a biofuels trade group on Thursday. The new documents, part of a lawsuit that began last year, […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop, Reuters

Biofuels group suing U.S. EPA over small refinery exemptions

By Reuters February 4, 2019

Washington | Reuters — Biofuels group Growth Energy filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday, challenging the agency’s renewable fuel mandate for 2019 as failing to address rising waived biofuel volumes. “EPA’s inaction on addressing lost gallons due to small refinery exemptions in this rulemaking is a clear violation of […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

U.S. EPA scraps plan to force refiners to blend more biofuels

By Jarrett Renshaw July 11, 2018

New York | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ditched a detailed plan that would have forced refiners to blend more biofuels into their gasoline and diesel in 2019 to compensate for volumes likely to be exempted under the agency’s small refinery hardship waiver program, according to newly released EPA documents. The plan would […] Read more

Corn, Crops, Machinery & Shop, Reuters

U.S. EPA won’t force refiners to make up waived biofuels volumes

By Jarrett Renshaw June 15, 2018

New York | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday it cannot make large oil refineries blend additional biofuels into their gasoline to make up for volumes waived under the small refinery hardship waiver program, unless Congress authorizes it. The agency’s decision was certain to anger the powerful U.S. corn lobby and […] Read more

Crops, Reuters

Trump open to biofuel policy reform, senators say

By Susan Cornwell December 7, 2017

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump is open to reforming the country’s biofuels policy if it can be done in a way that protects jobs in both the refining and agriculture industries, senators said on Thursday after a meeting with Trump on the issue. Nine lawmakers had requested the meeting to argue that […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop, Markets

Diesel prices poised to rise in new year

By Dave Sims November 28, 2017

CNS Canada — The lingering effects of two large hurricanes in the U.S. continue to be felt in the diesel market as harvest winds down throughout North America. In particular, Hurricane Harvey was a disruptive force on the U.S. energy market as it temporarily halted production at refineries. Both gas and diesel prices rose in […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop, Reuters

Storms worsen summer slump in U.S. diesel supply

By Jarrett Renshaw September 15, 2017

New York | Reuters — U.S. diesel stockpiles did something this year that has never happened in the summer before: They shrank. And that was even before Hurricane Harvey landed, knocking out a quarter of U.S. refining capacity, crippling production of fuel products. Thanks to surprising summer demand, particularly from exports, inventories of diesel, jet […] Read more

Crops, Machinery & Shop, Reuters, Weather

Harvey’s rains sending fuel prices higher

By Erwin Seba August 28, 2017

Houston | Reuters — U.S. fuel prices surged on Monday as two more Gulf Coast refiners cut output and a third considered reductions, leaving more than 13 per cent of the country’s refining capacity offline after Tropical Storm Harvey flooded plants and shut seaports. The storm swung back over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday […] Read more

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New environmental rules expected to further lift diesel prices

Trump’s EPA promises biofuel boost, angers Big Oil

U.S. EPA changed rules to help refiners get biofuel waivers, suit alleges

Biofuels group suing U.S. EPA over small refinery exemptions

U.S. EPA scraps plan to force refiners to blend more biofuels

U.S. EPA won’t force refiners to make up waived biofuels volumes

Trump open to biofuel policy reform, senators say

Diesel prices poised to rise in new year

Storms worsen summer slump in U.S. diesel supply

Harvey’s rains sending fuel prices higher

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