Calif. wins appeal in ethanol gas case.(News)

Byline: Joe Truini

A federal appeals court has ruled that the government must rethink its decision to require California to use the gasoline additive ethanol.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District ruled July 17 that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency abused its discretion by denying California's request for exemption from the oxygen level requirement under the federal reformulated gasoline program. Gov. Gray Davis wrote to the EPA in April 1999 requesting a waiver of the oxygen requirement, claiming that state reformulated gasoline blends red