This week, in response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's pending decision on the Growth Energy waiver petition on E15, the National Marine Manufacturers Association, BoatU.S. and a number of other organizations sent a letter to administration officials urging them to base their decision on sound, scientific data.
"We are writing to express our concern that EPA may allow E15 based on limited or inadequate data, as implied in its Nov. 30 letter to Growth Energy," the groups wrote to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson; Department of Energy secretary Steven Chu; and director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy Carol Browner.
"We urge EPA to base its decision on a complete and sound scientific record, and we urge DOE to help provide this science by spending all of the $15 million targeted for expanding and accelerating mid-level ethanol blends research in the 2010 appropriations bill ...," the letter states.
The full letter can be viewed here.
