California Report May Aid Request For Waiver From U.S. Clean-Fuel Rules

A draft report by California air regulators that details the adverse environmental impacts of blending ethanol in gasoline could bolster the state's argument for a waiver from EPA requirements that cleaner-burning reformulated gasoline include oxygenates, such as ethanol. But ethanol industry officials are attacking the draft report as biased, and based on incomplete studies and selective data. The California Air Resources Board's draft report , A Summary of the Staff's Assessment Regarding the Effect of Ethanol In California Gasoline on...