The American Coalition for Ethanol, the National Corn Growers Association and the Renewable Fuels Association asked U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to approve the use of E12, reported Cattle Network in Lenexa, Kan., as the industry bumps up against the blend wall waiting for pending EPA approval of E15. The blend wall is where production exceeds market demand. In a letter to Jackson, the groups said "based on the EPA's delay in acting upon the full E15 waiver and on our concerns that the agency will restrict the use of E15 to cars made in 2001 and thereafter, we encourage the EPA to formally approve the use of E12 for all motor vehicles as an immediate interim step pending any ongoing additional testing on E15." The groups said "EPA must provide a practical and workable solution to the ethanol blend wall issue and do so soon."

(Cattle Network, July 26, 2010)

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