Governors' Biofuels Coalition

Democratic lawmakers are preparing an onslaught of oversight for the Trump administration’s environmental priorities if they win control of Congress — and they’re aiming squarely at EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Requests for internal agency documents, public testimony, subpoenas and even impeachment of officials are on the table, according to Democratic members and aides.

The United States’ “abandonment” of a crucial climate pledge has increased the odds that the world will warm more than previously estimated, according to a United Nations scientific report released Wednesday.

The U.N.’s annual Emissions Gap Report is considered a definitive assessment of global progress on climate change. It identified the United States as an outlier among the industrialized nations that are responsible for most planet-warming pollution.

Among the Group of 20 industrialized nations, the report noted, emissions overall had slowed down in 2025, “with the United States of America being the major exception.”

Republicans locked in tight races this November are desperately hoping the Trump administration’s last-minute gambit to send farmers $8 billion in taxpayer money will work. President Donald Trump announced the new round of money, aimed at farmers struggling with high diesel prices, during a Monday rally for at-risk GOP Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas. The move comes as White House officials have scrambled to address anger in farm states from Republicans

A wave of change could be coming to Iowa, at least in the way some farmers and rural residents cast their ballots.

The state’s elections are drawing renewed attention to issues farmers say have long concerned them: agribusiness consolidation, a struggling farm input economy and water quality.

Iowa has long played an outsized role in national politics, from its presidential caucuses to its influence within the Republican Party. Now, the gubernatorial race is testing whether agricultural concerns can move voters across traditional party lines.

President Donald Trump announced $8 billion in aid to farmers struggling with high diesel prices while also tying his support for increased ethanol content in gasoline — a boon to Midwest corn growers — to the reelection of a Kansas senator.

Trump made the proclamation Monday while stumping for the embattled Sen. Roger Marshall, who’s trying to avoid being the first Republican in his state to lose a Senate race in 94 years, in his race against pastor and first-time political candidate Adam Hamilton, a Democrat.

“With Roger Marshall in the Senate, we will make year-round E15 permanent. But if Adam Hamilton is in, I’m not doing it,” Trump said. “That’s it. I’m only doing it for him.”

Charging companies in the U.S. are on track to install about as many public EV plugs this year as in 2025, the industry’s record high. By adding thousands of new plugs this year, charging executives say they aim to serve longtime EV owners looking for easier road trips as well as buyers flocking to used EVs—while prepping infrastructure for a future day when EV demand might bounce back.

 Senator Thune is not only on the Agriculture Committee and key to the Farm Bill negotiations, but he is also the Senate Majority Leader!! Let’s flex those muscles and use that authority to add a provision in the so called E15 legislation striking the “corn starch” cap.  The increase in RINs addresses everyone’s needs—small refiners would have options to meet the RFS requirements, large, integrated refiners would be incentivized to use more ethanol and make money off extra RINS, farmers benefit from increased demand, and the overarching purpose of the RFS would be met which was to reduce emissions.

While some farm groups thanked President Donald Trump for $8 billion in new ad-hoc aid, the Harvest Fuel Relief program, to cope with record-high diesel costs, groups also took the opportunity to push their legislative and policy issues.

Some groups also questioned the political timing of the announcement and criticized the Trump administration’s policies they say contributed to the farm-input crisis facing farmers.

The corn growers pressed for year-round sales of E15 to build demand while the cotton growers called for an ad-hoc package from Congress and championed legislation to boost domestic cotton processing.

President Donald Trump said on Monday the US Department of Agriculture will launch what he called a new “harvest fuel relief program” that will provide farmers with $8 billion in support to offset diesel costs during the harvest season.

“Tonight, I’m also pleased to announce that the Department of Agriculture will be launching a new harvest fuel relief program, providing our ⁠farmers with $8 billion in support to offset diesel costs during this harvest season,” Trump said in a midterm election campaign speech in Kansas.

President Trump said at a rally in Kansas Monday night that the Agriculture Department would provide $8 billion in economic aid to farmers hurt by high diesel prices.

It was the second time in two years that the president authorized billions of dollars in bailout money for farmers harmed by his administration’s policies, and came 15 days before a midterm election in which unhappy farmers and ranchers could be the deciding votes in close races across the country.

Under the plan, known as the Harvest Fuel Relief Program, the Agriculture Department will use a formula based on how many acres and which crops farmers planted to reimburse them for a “portion” of their losses. The money will come from the Commodity Credit Corporation, a financing institution that the Agriculture Department uses to fund crop insurance and natural disaster payment programs.