Litigation: Ethanol groups say fuels streamlining rule boosts E15 suit

Pro-ethanol groups are citing EPA’s recent rule “streamlining” its many regulations on fuel quality to support their arguments in litigation over the agency’s 2019 rule authorizing 15 percent ethanol fuel (E15) for year-round sale, claiming that definitions of “fuel additive” in the streamlining rule support blending higher levels of ethanol. In a Dec. 15 letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the Urban Air Initiative (UAI) and other ethanol supporters say that EPA’s Dec...