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5 Apr 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, is pressing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt for answers as to why the agency granted a Renewable Fuel Standard waiver to a large refiner. Reuters reported Tuesday that Andeavor, one of the country's largest refiners, received an RFS o...
5 Apr 2018
By Lin Tan DTN China Correspondent and Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor BEIJING, China, and CHICAGO (DTN) -- Alan Kemper, a farmer from Lafayette, Indiana, and former president of both the American Soybean Association and National Corn Growers Association, woke up early Wednesday to see soybeans down 40 cents. He said he thinks it could get wors...
4 Apr 2018
By Todd NeeleyDTN Staff Reporter OMAHA (DTN) -- With the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard in question, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may be opening another avenue to expand the role of ethanol in the nation's fuel supply. The EPA on Monday announced it will begin a rewrite of fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission standards for li...
4 Apr 2018
By Todd HultmanDTN Analyst I don't mean to dwell on the past, but it wasn't that long ago (Jan. 12) when USDA increased its corn yield estimate to a higher-than-expected 176.6 bushels an acre and estimated U.S. ending corn stocks at 2.477 billion bushels (bb) for 2017-18, the most since the 1980s. December corn dropped a couple cents that day and l...
4 Apr 2018
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor OMAHA (DTN) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has opened its own "back-door waiver" to the Renewable Fuel Standard by granting retroactive exemptions to RFS obligations to more than a dozen small refiners, including some that are part of highly-profitable refining conglomerates. "I smell a rat. I smell a r...