The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) reacted to the Biden Administration’s EPA announcement this week to allow the sale of E15 year-round in eight Midwest states, but not until the summer of 2025.

“As the saying goes, ‘better late than never,’ but EPA had a legal responsibility to approve E15 year-round in these states more than a year and a half ago, so postponing the effective date to April 28, 2025 is disappointing,” said ACE CEO Brian Jennings.

Jennings says ACE continues to actively support bipartisan legislation in Congress to permanently enable all Americans to benefit from the cost savings and cleaner emissions of year-round E15 and that will be the biggest priority issue during the organization’s March 14-15 DC fly-in. “E15 is really the timely, urgent topic right now,” said Jennings during an interview at the National Ethanol Conference this week. “We think we’re getting closer and closer to the point where that’s going to get adopted but we need to continue to mobilize support for that.”

E15 was also part of ACE’s comments this week to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) regarding its 2024 proposed amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), but they primarily focused on the proposed “sustainability criteria” for crop-based biofuels. “We are gravely concerned about the direction that CARB is taking this program,” said Jennings. “They want to go to the point where they are requiring ethanol producers to essentially track every bushel of corn that’s delivered to their facility.”

Listen to the full interview with Jennings here:
ACE CEO Brian Jennings 8:44