Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 10/31/18

Twelve environmental organizations want EPA to ensure more strict compliance on farmland used to grow crops for biofuels.

A 2007 law expanding the Renewable Fuel Standard barred farmers from using non-farmland to grow biofuel feedstocks. In a petition filed Tuesday, the groups asked EPA to end its policy of calculating total farmland used to grow feedstocks and instead require farmers producing biofuel feed to prove they're using land that was farmland in 2007.

"EPA has completely ignored its legal obligation by refusing to enforce these crucial environmental protections," the groups said in a statement.

From the biofuels sector: Renewable Fuels Association CEO Geoff Cooper said there is "absolutely no legitimacy" to assertions that prairie has been converted to farmland to support the RFS.