EPA SHIFTS BASIS FOR DENYING STATE WAIVERS FROM ETHANOL RULES

June 10, 2005
EPA appears to have shifted its rationale for denying California a waiver from the reformulated gasoline program's oxygenate content requirement, saying the state has dispelled earlier concerns that the waiver could increase certain emissions but arguing the benefits are still insufficient to justify the exemption. The ethanol industry and other observers are also expressing surprise after EPA cited energy and economic concerns in choosing to deny requests from California, as well as New York and Connecticut, for a waiver from...


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