The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced approval of 24 registration applications from 20 companies to begin making ethanol for use in gasoline with up to 15% ethanol (E15). 

P. Scott Shearer, Vice President

April 9, 2012

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EPA Approves E15 Registrations

 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced approval of 24 registration applications from 20 companies to begin making ethanol for use in gasoline with up to 15% ethanol (E15).  Ethanol producers and retailers must demonstrate compliance with local regulations and misfueling mitigation plans before E15 can be sold.  The ethanol trade association, Growth Energy, noted, “This announcement strengthens the ethanol industry’s efforts to innovate and continue to deliver domestically produced and affordable alternatives to foreign oil.  With ethanol selling an average of a dollar a gallon cheaper than gasoline and $4 per gallon on the horizon, we’d encourage all Americans to ask their local filling station how soon they will see more-affordable E15.”  E15 is expected to reach the Midwestern marketplace this summer.

About the Author(s)

P. Scott Shearer

Vice President, Bockorny Group, Inc.

Scott Shearer is vice president of the Bockorny Group Inc., a leading bipartisan government affairs consulting firm in Washington, D.C. With more than 30 years experience in government and corporate relations in state and national arenas, he is recognized as a leader in agricultural trade issues, having served as co-chairman of the Agricultural Coalition for U.S.-China Trade and co-chairman of the Agricultural Coalition for Trade Promotion Authority. Scott was instrumental in the passage of China Permanent Normal Trade Relations and TPA. He is past chairman of the USDA-USTR Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade in Animals and Animal Products and was a member of the USAID Food Security Advisory Committee. Prior to joining the Bockorny Group, Scott served as director of national relations for Farmland Industries Inc., as well as USDA’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs (1993-96), serving as liaison for the Secretary of Agriculture and the USDA to Congress.

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