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Source: WOWT
U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson is among several Midwest senators taking on the federal Environmental Protection Agency in an effort to protect the region's biofuels industry.
The Nebraska Democrat said Wednesday that he helped draft an amendment directing the EPA to allow increased ethanol amounts in gasoline. Currently, only gas blends of 10 percent ethanol or 85 percent ethanol, or E85, may be sold in the U.S. The E85 is used only in multifuel vehicles.
The amendment would allow up to a 15 percent ethanol blend.
Nelson also seeks to delay an EPA rule that would penalize U.S. biofuels producers. That penalty would be for environmental damage caused by other countries clearing land for crops to make up for the loss of U.S. crops to biofuels production.
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