Battle to implement E15 waiver continues

Ethanol Producer Magazine
By Holly Jessen December 11, 2011

Letters for and against an amendment that would prevent the U.S. EPA from using appropriated funds to implement the E15 waiver have recently been sent to leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Committees.

It started Dec. 7, with a letter authored by Reps. John Sullivan, R-Okla., Gary Peters, D-Mich., and 73 of their colleagues, requesting that the House Appropriations Committee include an amendment in the fiscal year 2012 omnibus appropriations package that would slow down the implementation of E15 to allow for more testing. The letter, which was addressed to Chairman Harold Rogers and ranking member Norm Dicks, concluded that more testing is needed to make sure that E15 will not harm consumer vehicles. “The Sullivan/Peters amendment will provide a much needed time-out for such analyses to be completed,” the letter’s authors said. “The desire to allow for more ethanol to enter the transportation fuel pool should not trump sound science.”

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