Ethanol Proponents Claim EPA Air Model Overestimates Fuel's Emissions

Ethanol producers and supportive states are pursuing a data quality challenge claiming EPA's latest mobile source emissions model vastly overstates the ozone-forming emissions associated with the fuel, saying the agency's approach could discourage use of the fuel and ignores its ability to lead to lower air pollution levels than gasoline. The challenge , filed March 6 under the Information Quality Act (IQA), asks EPA to formally correct the allegedly flawed data in the agency's Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator (MOVES) 2014,...