UAI files petition against EPA in ongoing challenge for ethanol models

In Washington, Urban Air Initiative filed a new petition against the U.S. EPA as the next step in what UAI officials describe as their ongoing effort to challenge EPA’s defective models and policies relating to ethanol.  As in a previous legal challenge to EPA, UAI teamed with the Energy Future Coalition and the states of Kansas and Nebraska.

The petition charges that EPA’s Motor Fuel Emission Simulator (MOVES) model wrongly blames ethanol for creating harmful tailpipe emissions, based on poorly designed test fuels. The petition calls upon EPA to undertake a new emissions study using real world fuels with the simple addition of ethanol.