EPA approves study on E15

An evaluation of E15's health effects as part of Growth Energy's three-year petition to approve sales of the mid-level ethanol blend has been issued and whilst the EPA must approve individual fuel blends. Tom Buis of Growth Energy suggests it is now a market driven issue rather than a regulatory one.

'It is up to the retailers and individual fuel companies to register for approval to sell E15,' he says. 'With a clear path forward toward a federally-approved, lower-cost fuel blend available as an antidote to the record gasoline prices we're told to expect, we are encouraged that retailers will move quickly.'

Growth Energy first filed its petition seeking federal approval to increase blends of ethanol in fuel from 10 % (E10) to 15 % (E15) in March 2009. It suggests that the move to E-15 will create about 140,000 jobs and reduce foreign oil imports by 7 billion gallons.

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