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The annual High Performance Low Carbon Liquid Fuels Summit was held at Andretti Global headquarters. Stakeholders learned about the environmental benefits, economic potential and value of corn-based ethanol and soybean-based biodiesel.
Federal policymakers have a problem: Their hope to make corn and soybeans the feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel hit a wall when the aviation industry ruled biofuel from either crop did not meet its “sustainable” guidelines.
The easiest way to win any game is to rig the rules. That’s what Big Ag and its loyal boosters at the U.S. Department of Agriculture appear to be doing to make sure their new project, sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, flies.
From as far back as he can remember, farming and the fire department have been a part Wade Knobloch’s life.
Kyle Kellen doesn’t fly around Lee County in a traffic helicopter, but even so, when he’s off duty and out in public, he’s most likely to be recognized as the road-report deputy.
From his early days of riding the tractor with his grandfather and uncle, Joe Hassinger always wanted to be a farmer. A high school course piqued another interest and he was able to eventually converge those two interests into careers.
With U.S. electric vehicle sales starting to slow, Ford Motor Co. says it will delay rolling out new electric pickup trucks and a new large electric SUV as it adds gas-electric hybrids to its model lineup.
Boeing is buying 9.4 million gallons of blended sustainable aviation fuel to support its 2024 U.S. commercial operations, reducing its carbon emissions and working to help grow the supply of the fuel globally.
Driver and worker safety, especially in work zones, means more than a week in April, for the Illinois Department of Transportation and Mid-West Truckers Association.
Bridges throughout Illinois are on the top of the priority list for a statewide infrastructure funding program.
Four railroads have asked federal appeals courts to throw out a new rule that would require two-person train crews in most circumstances.
California can continue to set its own nation-leading vehicle emissions standards, a federal court ruled.
There’s not a day that goes by, when farmers aren’t thinking about how to leave the land better than we found it.
The first of three phases that move toward higher biodiesel blend sales tax exemptions was effective April 1.
Illinois has the resources to play an important role in the development of sustainable aviation fuel.