GEORGIA SEEKS REFORMULATED GAS WAIVER FOR ATLANTA-AREA COUNTIES

Georgia is seeking an EPA waiver sparing 13 counties surrounding Atlanta from a requirement that will likely force them to use the gasoline additive ethanol in order to comply with federal clean-air standards. The mandate, which is scheduled to take effect in 2005, would cost millions of dollars to implement and leave the state using three separate fuel mixtures, also leading to supply and distribution problems, the state's environmental protection director wrote in a letter to EPA. Georgia now joins...