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Biofuels interests groups submitted comments to the USDA outlining ways to make it more practical for farmers to take advantage of the 45Z Clean Fuels Production Credit.
Oil futures closest to expiration on the New York Mercantile Exchange and Brent crude on the Intercontinental Exchange softened Monday morning...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday vacated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's denial of previously...
Weather continues to create interesting scenarios for DTN's View From the Cab farmers in Idaho and Kentucky. This week updates on some...
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DTN Environmental Editor Todd Neeley is a lifelong resident of Lincoln, Nebraska, and a 1994 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he earned a bachelor's degree in news editorial.
Neeley worked as a reporter and photographer with the weekly newspaper The Milford Times in southeast Nebraska until 2002. He then went to work as the government reporter for The Hastings Tribune in central Nebraska, where he covered the Nebraska Legislature and city and county government. Neeley was hired as a staff reporter at DTN in August 2004, where he has worked on numerous in-depth reporting projects, covered the ethanol and crop insurance beats. He is now an environmental reporter for DTN, covering Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act and other issues important to farmers.
During his 18-year career, Neeley has earned more than 50 state and national awards for reporting and writing. In 2010 he was a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award finalist for a series of stories on ethanol and oil subsidies.
Biofuels interests groups submitted comments to the USDA outlining ways to make it more practical for farmers to take advantage of the 45Z Clean Fuels Production Credit.
A tax incentive passed by the Michigan Legislature in June to incentivize the expanded sale of E15, known as unleaded 88, in the state was eliminated by Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday vacated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's denial of previously granted small-refinery exemptions to the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Agricultural industry officials told the House Agriculture Committee on Tuesday that the industry needs a strong farm bill and possibly even more economic aid as economic headwinds continue to blow across rural America.
A Kansas man faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud ranchers during the 2021 drought.
A federal court in Massachusetts ruled Monday that the state's law banning the sale of pork meat that doesn't meet sow housing requirements is not preempted by federal law, allowing the law to...
The American Farm Bureau Federation, American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association and the National Farmers Union want to see guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuel Production tax credit include a domestic-feedstocks...
Michigan farmer Gaylord Lincoln asked a federal court this week to dismiss wire and mail fraud charges against him after a grand jury indicted Lincoln in connection with a federal crop insurance...
CF Industries and Poet LLC announced plans to study how low-carbon ammonia applied to fields by farmers who supply grain to ethanol plants can reduce carbon emissions.
A survey of 1,045 farmers by researchers at the University of Georgia found a connection between high stress levels in farming and binge drinking.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a change to when the agency analyzes the effects of pesticide spray drift in hopes of protecting more farmworkers.
Agriculture groups asked a federal court to throw out a conservation rule finalized in May by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management that may exclude ranchers from grazing public lands.
Citing rising construction costs, Archer Daniels Midland and LG Chem canceled plans to build a new corn-based polylactic acid plant in Decatur, Illinois.
The House Agriculture Committee got an earful from farmers and other agriculture industry officials during a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, who told representatives they need to see more engagement with the U.S...
The White House released a unified agenda for all federal agencies that includes what would be a one-year delay in finalizing Renewable Fuel Standard volumes for 2026.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked a federal court to issue an injunction against several dairies in southern Washington state, requiring them to take steps to protect drinking water from nitrate pollution.
A group of eight scientists told a federal appeals court last week that claims made in a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity that the Renewable Fuel Standard led to the conversion of previously unfarmed grasslands to...
The Supreme Court's decision Monday in Corner Post Inc. v. Federal Reserve has the potential to expand the number of lawsuits filed against federal agencies overall, including lawsuits challenging...
A group of 157 Republican members of Congress on Tuesday asked EPA Administrator Michael Regan to withdraw a final heavy-duty truck emissions rule that mandates electric trucks.
South Dakota farmer Arlen Foster will have his legal challenge of a USDA wetlands determination reheard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
A limited number of farmers and ranchers are expected to be affected directly by the Supreme Court's action that overturned a long-held legal doctrine called Chevron deference.
The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the so-called Chevron deference doctrine on a 6-3 vote, clearing the way for farmers such as South Dakota producer Arlen Foster to challenge federal agency decisions.
A federal court in Idaho denied a motion filed by J.R. Simplot to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the company's Grand View, Idaho, feedlot has been illegally discharging pollution since 2012.
The Iowa Utilities Board on Tuesday approved Summit Carbon Solutions' proposal to build a 688-mile stretch of a 1,250-mile carbon pipeline in Iowa. The decision also grants authority to use eminent domain.
Clean Fuels Alliance America is petitioning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make significant increases in 2024 and 2025 volumes for biomass-based diesel and advanced biofuels.
Seed companies involved in the environmental cleanup of a now-defunct ethanol plant in Mead, Nebraska, have restarted operations to remove wet cake waste from the site.
A Monona, Iowa, farmer who pleaded guilty in connection with livestock theft and wire fraud, was fined by the state of Iowa for an environmental violation on his feedlot.
Agriculture interest groups filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, defending the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of concentrated animal feeding...
A federal court in Michigan has moved the trial date from June to September in a case alleging Springport, Michigan, farmer Gaylord Lincoln committed crop insurance and farm benefits fraud.
The Andersons, Inc., one of the largest grain companies in the U.S., announced its intent to explore a potential purchase of Ulysses, Kansas-based Skyland Grain, LLC.
Farmers and biofuels producers across the country begin to take stock in farm practices as they wait for the IRS to release guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit.
Following a warning issued to John Deere by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the company has made a new addition to owner's manuals on its equipment that allows independent repair shops to make repairs to emissions systems.
China has banned beef exports from a JBS Swift Beef Company plant in Greeley, Colorado, after traces of the feed additive ractopamine was found in meat bound for China.
The IRS released guidance on Friday on how and when taxpayers should register for the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit by July.
The North Dakota Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Summit Carbon Solutions has the legal right to enter private lands to conduct surveys during the process of building a 1,250-mile carbon pipeline.
American Foods Group LLC is the latest food company to reach a settlement in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit alleging food companies conspired to fix employee wages.
Two environmental groups have asked a district court in Colorado to require the state to monitor groundwater as part of a general permit program for concentrated animal feeding operations.
Language designed to prevent other states from passing animal welfare laws similar to Proposition 12 in California passed in the House Agriculture Committee's farm bill without debate.
As Oregon farmers wait for state officials to complete rules and regulations for a new water-permit requirement for concentrated animal feeding operations, one farm family says the delay has put the farm's expansion plans on hold.
Mental health professionals are scarce in rural America. Rural clergy and other community members are working to fill those gaps with the help of training programs that teach them how to respond to mental health crises.
Growth Energy and the Renewable Fuels Association filed a petition with the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the court to reverse an appeals court decision from 2023 that vacated EPA denials...
A group of 25 agriculture, biofuels and other interests told U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that they need guidance on the 45Z Clean Fuels Production Credit "as soon as possible."
The U.S. International Trade Commission voted on Friday to continue investigating whether 2,4-D producers in China and India have been dumping the chemical on the U.S. market after Corteva Agribusiness LLC filed a petition in March.
Attorneys general in multiple states have filed two separate federal lawsuits challenging electric truck fleet mandates in California and at the federal level.
The newly elected president of the American Medical Association told reporters last week that the shortage of doctors in rural America is a key reason rural residents are less healthy than their urban counterparts.
A new Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration audit of biofuel tax credits claimed in 2022 finds the potential for fraud.
Somerville, Tennessee-based Fayette Janitorial Services LLC has been ordered to pay $649,304 in civil penalties for violating child labor laws by employing children to work overnight shifts at a Seaboard Triumph Foods LLC packing...
An Idaho ranch sued by the EPA for allegedly committing Clean Water Act violations filed a motion to dismiss the case in federal court.
A federal court granted a motion to delay the trial of a Springport, Michigan, farmer indicted by a grand jury on alleged counts of crop insurance and farm benefits fraud.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is ready to hear oral arguments this summer in a lawsuit filed by former eastern Washington rancher Cody Easterday.
Two state commodity groups in Texas and the National Sorghum Producers asked a federal appeals court to review a new fuel-testing rule contained in the recently finalized vehicle pollution standards that mandate the production...
Training programs empower rural clergy and other community leaders to respond to mental health crises.
Nine food companies named in an ongoing wage-fixing lawsuit filed by current and former food company employees have filed motions to dismiss in a federal court.