The Specialty Equipment Market Association has announced its support for legislation to repeal the E15 mandate after the Supreme Court recently rejected petitions to reconsider a lower court ruling allowing gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol (E15).

The lower court did not rule on whether the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to permit E15 to be sold in the marketplace was valid. Rather, the court ruled that the parties challenging the decision, groups representing car, boat and power equipment manufacturers, along with the oil and food industries, did not have “standing” because they had failed to demonstrate a direct injury from E15 sales, SEMA noted in a statement.