In early 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a request by eight Midwestern governors to allow the year-round sale of E15 beginning in 2025. With the delayed implementation, emergency waivers needed to be implemented for E15 sales in the summer of 2024. Wrapping up 2024, Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper shares that a fix to E15 access was introduced but didn’t end up passing through the Continuing Resolution package.
“The legislation that would permanently solve this issue once and for all was in the continuing resolution package that was initially introduced in the house, and then the wheels fell off and you had many members of the republican party saying look, we are not going to vote for a CR bill that is loaded up with extras and writers. We want to skinny this down to just the basics. The purpose here is just to fund the government into March and we are going to scrap everything extra in this legislation.”
Heading into 2025, E15 passage continues to be a priority for ethanol groups.
Listen to Cooper on THE Ethanol Report discussing 2024 E15 legislation:
