E15
In March 2009, Growth Energy filed its Green Jobs Waiver to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seeking approval to blend up to 15 percent ethanol in gasoline, from the current cap of 10 percent ethanol. By raising the “blend wall” from E10 to E15, the Growth Energy Green Jobs Waiver would accelerate the use of renewable fuel, increase energy security, create U.S. jobs, reduce transportation costs to everyday Americans, and improve the environment by displacing conventional gasoline with low-carbon ethanol.
The Green Jobs Waiver was accompanied with more supporting academic, government and third-party research than any of the 11 previous waivers approved by EPA. By raising the wall from E10 to E15, the EPA could help create as many as 136,000 new jobs in the United States and eliminate as much as 20 million metric tons of GHG emissions from the air in a year — the equivalent of taking 10.5 million vehicles off the road. Increasing the domestic, renewable fuel supply would also displace some of the 12 million barrels of oil that is imported every day into the United States from countries such as Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.
Original Documents
On March 6, 2009, Growth Energy officially filed a waiver to the Clean Air Act requesting approval for use of an ethanol-gasoline blend containing up to 15 percent ethanol by volume. Read the cover letter to EPA (PDF) and waiver application (PDF).
Growth Energy's comments on the waiver filed with EPA (PDF)
On Nov. 30, 2009, the EPA responded (PDF) to our waiver request with notification that testing on vehicle durability was not complete and expected data from those tests to be available by mid-June, 2010. Listen to press conference audio on this decision to delay the waiver grant.
On June 17, 2010, Growth Energy sent a letter to President Obama (PDF) urging him to take whatever steps are necessary to accelerate the Department of Energy testing required for the Green Jobs Waiver application. Listen to press conference audio about the letter and EPA's decision to delay the waiver grant again.
Learn the facts about E15
Read the press release about our filing of the Green Jobs Waiver
Search for more press releases about E15
Papers and Studies
Scientific studies supporting E15
Economic Impacts of Increasing the Ethanol Blend Limit (PDF)
Scientist letter to EPA (PDF)
Environmental white paper (PDF)
A Rational Approach to Qualifying Materials for Use in Fuel Systems (PDF)
