API Still Talking Legal Action on Year-Round E15

The oil industry on Monday threatened to the sue the Trump administration if it carries out the president’s announced plan to relax rules to allow E15 ethanol blends to be sold year-round.“We think it is against the law,” Frank Macchiarola, American Petroleum Institute (API) vice president of downstream and industry operations told reporters on a call. "We are going to consider all of our legal options” to ensure “this policy is not enacted.”Macchiarola made the remarks in a session where API released results of a poll indicating consumers were concerned about the potential year-round E15 sales."The waiver is explicitly disallowed under the Clean Air Act, and even the EPA has agreed in the past that the agency does not have the authority to waive the vapor pressure requirements that would allow year-round sales of E15," Macchiarola said.