Jayce Jimenez is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. What comes to mind when you think of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)? As the name suggests, the IRA was aimed at curbing rapid inflation that occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the IRA is additionally and,…
Beverly Bolster is an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland and a guest contributor to this blog. Earlier this year, Senators Heinrich (D-NM) and Braun (R-IN) introduced the Agrivoltaics Research and Demonstration Act of 2023 in the U.S. Senate to provide funding for the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture to jointly research agrivoltaics. In the bill, an “agrivoltaic…
On October 15, 2019, the Trump Administration EPA proposed a new method of estimating the amount of gasoline and diesel that would be exempt from biofuel blending requirements due to exemptions for certain refineries. Offered through a Supplemental Notice, the calculation would be used to increase the amount of biofuel that is blended into transportation fuel by accounting for and…