Federal court strikes down Trump E15 rule; Iowa Gov. calls it gut punch
FILE - In this April 21, 2020 file photo, ethanol train cars wait outside the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy plant, an ethanol producer, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Decision is significant blow to corn farmers and ethanol industry.
Posted: Jul 2, 2021 6:31 PM
Updated: Jul 2, 2021 6:53 PM
Posted By: Mike Bunge
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a Trump-era Environmental Protection Agency rule change that allowed for the sale of a 15% ethanol gasoline blend in the summer months.
The decision deals a significant blow to the ethanol industry and corn farmers who grow the crop from which the fuel additive is made. They had anticipated increased ethanol demand through year-round sales of the higher blend.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today reversed a 2019 rule by the Environmental Protection Agency that E15 gasoline, a 15% ethanol blend, could be sold year round with few restrictions.
Oil refiners challenged the rule in the case, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. vs. EPA.
EPA had long held that E10, a 10% ethanol blend, was safe from concerns about high levels of vaporization that could affect the functioning of gasoline powered vehicles, but for many years E15 could not be sold in the summertime on the grounds that the vaporization level was too high.
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DES MOINES, Iowa, July 2, 2021 (ENS) – Corn producers across the country, and especially in the corn-growing state of Iowa, are dismayed by an appeals court ruling Friday that reversed a 2019 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that lifted restrictions on the year-round sale of 15 percent ethanol fuel blend (E15). Before the EPA rule, only a fuel blend with 10 percent ethanol could be sold year-round.
In the case of American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, et al. vs. EPA, a challenge by oil refiners and small retailers to the EPA’s rule allowing year-round sales of the E15 biofuel blend, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today decided that the EPA lacks authority to impose the rule.
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