Published 3/3/2009
by Josh Dorner
at Green on HuffingtonPost.com
President Obama is listening. One of the first things his new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Lisa Jackson, did was to acknowledge that Americans want cleaner cars; cars that go further on a gallon of gas and emit less global warming pollution.
EPA is now considering whether to reverse the Bush administration's unlawful decision to block California and more than a dozen other states from implementing landmark standards to cut global warming emissions from our vehicles -- and the EPA is asking us, the public, what we think.
This Thursday, we'll be delivering photos of folks from around the country, holding car keys (or bike lock keys or even just your house keys), and saying, "EPA is the key to cleaner cars." Will you add your photo and tell EPA we want clean cars?
Click HERE to get started. All you need is your cell phone camera and a set of keys--any keys!
EPA is holding the hearing this Thursday to help decide whether it should give ...
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