EPA DEVELOPING VOLUNTARY FUELS PLAN TO PROMOTE BIODIESEL, E-85

EPA is developing a voluntary program to boost the use of biodiesel and ethanol-containing E-85 -- two fuels that help reduce air toxics emissions -- that the agency may have limited ability to promote in its upcoming regulation to implement the renewable fuels mandate in the 2005 energy law, according to agency officials, fuel industry sources and environmentalists. Industry sources and activists say the voluntary program for biodiesel, a fuel made from materials such as vegetable oil, comes as the...