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U.S. carmakers and engine manufacturers asked an appeals court to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its October decision allowing the sale of gasoline with 15 percent ethanol.
Organizations including the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers Monday asked the federal appeals court in Washington to review whether the EPA’s “partial waiver” allowing so-called E-15 fuels violates the Clean Air Act.
“Our organizations collectively represent some 400 million engine products used by tens of millions of people every day in the U.S.,” Kris Kiser, a spokesman for the Engine Products Group, composed of four trade organizations, said in a statement.
The EPA on Oct. 13 granted a request from ethanol producers, including Decatur, Ill.-based Archer Daniels Midland Co., to increase concentrations of the corn-based fuel additive in gasoline for vehicles made for 2007 and later. The previous limit was 10 percent.
The EPA’s media department didn’t immediately return calls for comment on the filing of the petition.
The manufacturers said the testing EPA used for its decision was put in the administrative record too late for meaningful comment, that the regulator’s own statute says fuels can’t be approved that could cause failures, and that E-15 has been shown to adversely affect engines.
