Insights and Stories on EPA

U.S. grains: Corn, soy drop; soyoil limit-down

Jun. 11, 2021 at 7:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures eased and soyoil futures plunged by their daily trading limit on Friday on concerns about demand for renewable fuel feedstocks after news the White House was considering offering fuel refiners relief from biofuel blending mandates. The Reuters report that the U.S. […]

Bayer, Corteva in ‘two-dog battle’ over U.S. soy market

Apr. 9, 2021 at 8:26 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Trump administration mulls industry-wide biofuel waiver

Jan. 15, 2021 at 5:43 pm CST

By Stephanie Kelly

U.S. fuel industry frazzled as EPA misses biofuel volumes deadline

Nov. 30, 2020 at 7:59 pm CST

By Stephanie Kelly

U.S. EPA approves XtendiMax use for five years

Oct. 27, 2020 at 8:13 pm CDT

By Reuters

Trump’s EPA sides with farmers over refiners on biofuel waivers

Sep. 14, 2020 at 7:30 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — The Trump administration said on Monday it rejected scores of requests from U.S. oil refiners for waivers that would have retroactively spared them from their obligation to blend biofuels like ethanol into their fuel, delivering a win for farmers and a blow to the oil […]

By Stephanie Kelly

Bayer scraps plans for U.S. dicamba production

Jun. 16, 2020 at 6:37 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Bayer said on Tuesday it will scrap a nearly US$1 billion project to produce dicamba in the United States, but said the move is unrelated to a federal court decision that blocked sales of dicamba-based herbicides. The German-based company is moving to save cash as it […]

By Reuters

U.S. EPA permits farmers’ use of dicamba until July 31

Jun. 8, 2020 at 9:00 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday that farmers can use existing supplies of a herbicide linked to crop damage, after a federal court blocked sales and use of the product last week. The EPA said farmers have until July 31 to use supplies of […]

By Tom Polansek

Court blocks sales of dicamba in U.S.

Jun. 4, 2020 at 1:51 pm CDT

Updated — Reuters — A U.S. appeals court has blocked Bayer from selling an agricultural weed killer in the United States, the latest setback for a business already fighting an expensive legal battle over another product. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the U.S. […]

By Ludwig Burger Tom Polansek

COVID-19 spurs new clash between Big Oil, Big Corn

Apr. 17, 2020 at 4:08 am CDT

New York | Reuters — A fuel demand meltdown caused by the coronavirus outbreak in the United States has started up a new fight between the oil and agriculture industries over the nation’s biofuel policy, this time over whether the policy should be suspended or expanded as a result of […]

By Stephanie Kelly