The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) biofuel program is doing more harm than good by killing endangered species, according to a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration. The lawsuit (pdf), filed in mid-July at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), challenges the EPA’s fuel-volume requirements for corn ethanol and other…

The Agricultural Outlook Forum 2023 opened on Feb. 23, spotlighting climate-smart farming initiatives and expanding the U.S. biofuels industry. In the symposium, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack highlighted both initiatives as a means for American farmers to “diversify” their income and boost profits. “There’s a market value to that. So we have 141 projects…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that he will commit to reducing biofuel production in the UK in a bid to combat skyrocketing food prices at home and abroad. Critics have said it will hardly “make a difference to the cost of living crisis” and urged Johnson to commit to a “radical U-turn on green…

United Airlines flew more than 100 passengers on a new Boeing 737 MAX 8 from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.  The 612-mile trip used “sustainable aviation fuel” (SAF) on an unprecedented scale for a flight with many people on it. Airlines are currently eligible for a $1…

In the push to achieve net-zero emissions, Canada’s rapid expansion of the biofuels sector could have negative consequences as studies show that biofuels production leads directly to food price increases, an environmental economist says. “There’s been a long-standing theme in the economics literature around ethanol and biofuels policy that there’s competition with the food supply,”…