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Canola growers are welcoming the EPA's proposed determination that canola oil-derived renewable diesel and other newer biofuels qualify as advanced biofuels. Last week, the EPA, as part of the announcement of summertime E15 sales this year, proposed using canola oil-derived fuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard ...

The Environmental Protection Agency this week released its first-ever comprehensive workplan to address the challenge of protecting endangered species from pesticides. The plan establishes four overall strategies and dozens of actions to adopt protections while providing farmers, public health authorities, and others with access to pesticides ...

President Joe Biden Tuesday announced the EPA is taking steps to allow for summertime E15 sales. To make E15 available in the summer, EPA is planning to issue a national emergency waiver. Without a waiver, E15 cannot be used in most of the country from June 1 to September 15, and the EPA plans to take final action to issue the emergency waiver closer to June 1 ...

Oregon has just wrapped up its first ever Food Waste Prevention Week, but that does not mean the efforts to keep food from the landfill comes to an end. According to the EPA, the average American family of four wastes as much as $1,800 of purchased food annually ...

A group of U.S. agricultural organizations had filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over chlorpyrifos. DTN said the 21 groups want the agency’s pending ban on the product to be halted and eventually revoked. The lawsuit was filed as the EPA will finalize its rule revoking the food tolerances for the insecticide on February 28. That ...

Like much of the farming community across the country, the Idaho Cattle Association is watching the ongoing WOTUS debate very closely. The Biden EPA has announced it will replace the Trump era Navigable Waters Protection Act, but it remains unclear if that means a return to the Obama Administration’s Waters of the U.S. ru ...

As many farm and agriculture groups submitted comments on the EPA's proposed changes to the Waters of the U.S. rule, The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture asked the EPA to suspend the rule-making process. The comment period on the proposal by the EPA closed Monday ...

Farmers and Ranchers have until through the end of Monday, February 7th, to tell the EPA how proposed changes to the Waters of the U.S. rule will impact their operation. Courtney Briggs, American Farm Bureau Federation Senior Director of Congressional Relations, says it’s important the EPA receives comments directly from farmers and ranchers. " ...

Earlier this week, the USDA published the 2020 Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary. The summary shows that more than 99% of the samples tested had pesticide residues below benchmark levels established by the EPA. The report for 2020, issued by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, marks the 30th year of survey results. Ove ...

On Tuesday, the EPA opened a 60-day comment period requesting public comments on the sixth proposed rule in a series of revisions to the pesticide crop grouping regulations. Crop groups are established when residue data for certain representative crops are used to establish pesticide tolerances for a group of crops that are botanically or taxonomically related ...