Agriculture giants including Cargill Inc. and Bunge Global SA are slowing their buying of soybeans because of uncertainty over U.S. biofuels policy.

Alarm has grown in the U.S. in recent months over soaring UCO imports from China, potentially displacing more regulated American-made biomass-based diesel.

American agriculture groups are decrying California’s planned 20% cap on U.S.-made canola- and soy-based biodiesel and renewable diesel that could tip the market toward foreign sources.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is pushing for eased tax credit requirements regarding crops used as ingredients in the production of renewable fuels, according to Secretary Tom Vilsack.

A growing number of energy and agriculture firms have been boosting spending in an effort to plant and crush more canola, an oilseed that could play a big role in the renewable fuel markets.

President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has had a tough week. Lingering in the background is a boom he touted for American farmers that hasn’t panned out.

A coalition of biofuel proponents and agricultural groups is asking Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for guidance about a Clean Fuels Production Credit based on carbon intensity scores.

China is flooding the U.S. with used cooking oil that the biofuel industry says may be tainted, hurting American farmers and President Joe Biden’s push to promote climate-friendly energy.

Renewable fuel production targets are too low to sustain the sector and have resulted in shuttered biofuel companies, a consortium of trade associations stated in a letter to EPA's Michael Regan.

American farmers will plant more corn than soybeans in 2024 — as they have in most years for over a century. But beyond that, a green diesel boom threatens to dethrone the king of all crops.