E15 ruling due late summer

Des Moines Register
Blog post by Philip Brasher • pbrasher@dmreg.com • March 3, 2010

The Environmental Protection Agency is on track to say by late this summer whether high rates of ethanol can be blended into gasoline, according to Administrator Lisa Jackson. The current ethanol limit for conventional cars is 10 percent. The ethanol industry asked the EPA to raise that to 15 percent. The agency has been considering allowing the higher limit for newer cars and trucks.

Jackson told a Senate subcommittee today that the Energy Department was expected to wrap up in April or May its testing of the impact of higher ethanol blends on engines. The EPA will then use those results in making its decision on the blend level.

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