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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
The ethanol industry is eying the likely extension of the Bush tax cuts as a potential vehicle for extending key ethanol tax credits.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) on Monday called for expanding electric and natural gas vehicles legislation slated to come up for a procedural vote during the lame-duck session to encourage the use of ethanol. While he said he would vote for cloture on the bill, he warned that he would oppose the bill on a final vote if provisions to encourage biofuels are not added.
More than 75 environmental and conservation groups have signed a petition calling on the U.S. and Canadian governments to halt all oil sands projects that would result in the creation of new tailing ponds, which hold the waste of oil sands production.
Senate Democrats sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday asking her not to “prejudge” the outcome of an Obama administration review of a massive pipeline project that will stretch from Alberta, Canada, to Texas.
The American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry’s national trade organization, criticized the Obama administration Wednesday — and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular — for its efforts to impose new limits on greenhouse gas emissions and ozone pollution. The group also targeted the EPA’s recent decision to approve a waiver allowing gasoline to be mixed with up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) in newer vehicles.
A number of lawmakers are up in arms this week over vague comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the controversial TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, which is slated to run from Alberta, Canada, to Texas.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it has granted a waiver allowing for gasoline to be mixed with up to 15 percent ethanol for vehicles of model year 2007 and newer. Currently, only 10 percent ethanol can be blended with gasoline. There has been an ongoing fight behind the scenes for months on the issue, [...]
Next session, environmentalists fear, Congress will be more conservative, whether Republicans control either chamber or not. As a result, they hope Senate Democrats might try to move energy bills during the crowded lame-duck session.
It’s a tricky thing, getting 60 votes for a renewable energy standard in the U.S. Senate. As of Thursday, the RES had 25 co-sponsors, including Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley. While that’s not shabby, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has said the bill, proposed by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan., needs [...]
The renewable energy standard introduced by U.S. Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Sam Brownback, R-Kans., this week now has 25 co-sponsors. In fact, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s, R-Iowa, office confirms that he signed on Thursday as the fourth Republican co-sponsor, joining Brownback, Susan Collins of Maine and John Ensign of Nevada. Earlier this week, Politico [...]
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