Des Moines, Iowa — The governors of Iowa and seven other Midwestern states are asking federal regulators to approve year-round E-15 sales in their states.
Governor Kim Reynolds, along with the governors of the Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Kansas signed a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency, seeking a waiver to permanently allow gasoline with 15 percent ethanol to be sold during the summer months in their states.
Clean Air Act rules prohibit the sale of E-15 from the beginning of June through the middle of September in several states. As President Biden announced at an Iowa ethanol plant earlier this month, the EPA is allowing E-15 to be sold nationwide this summer to lower gas prices — but it’s a one-year waiver.
