The agency has been considering waiving pollution requirements for E15 gasoline for years. (Bloomberg) — After President Donald Trump promised Iowa voters he would unleash high-ethanol gasoline, his administration fast-tracked a plan to lift summertime restrictions on the fuel, forgoing studies of its potential price tag and hastily ending a review of the measure. At one point, the EPA even justified not conducting a deep environmental analysis of its proposal by arguing that allowing year-round sales of so-called E15 gasoline wouldn’t actually give a big market boost to ethanol, undermining a key political promise driving the initiative. The regulatory shift won’t “significantly alter the penetration of E15” and “we do not expect this action to significantly change overall ethanol use,” the Environmental Protection Agency said. The comments were included in documents from a White House-led inter-agency review of the measure, released this week. They reveal how regulators skirted detailed […]