reuters.com - 5/19/2009
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By Environment News Service - Environment News Service President Barack Obama is proposing on Tuesday the highest auto fuel efficiency standards ever attempted in the United States. Burning less fuel also will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tailpipes, saving energy and forestalling ...
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aaenvironment.blogspot.com - 5/26/2009
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor, left, wrote an opinion in
Riverkeeper v. EPA , 475 F.3d 83 (2d Cir....
2007), that the EPA was not permitted to engage in a cost-benefit analysis to determine “best technology available”; instead, it could consider cost only to determine “what technology can be ‘reasonably ...
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Environment & Energy
nytimes.com - 5/18/2009
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WASHINGTON The Obama administration will issue new national
emissions and mileage requirements for cars and light trucks...
to resolve a long-running conflict among the states, the federal government and auto manufacturers, industry officials said ...
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Obama to Announce New Mileage and Emission Standards
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Obama MPG Proposal Raises Stakes for Green Car Tech
Earth2Tech —
... The Obama administration’s proposal includes a 39 MPG average for automakers’ passenger car lineups, plus a 30 MPG average for light trucks and 35.5 MPG overall — all by 2016. That’s four years earlier than required under the current standards, established as part of the 2007 Energy Bill. The proposal has tighter standards beginning to take effect in 2012. ...
Everybody Wins with Obama’s Clean Cars Plan, Including a California Teacher
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... Tuesday I went to the White House to hear President Obama announce his plan to issue new greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards for cars and trucks. This plan, based on California's groundbreaking emissions law, makes everybody a winner. ...
US Fuel Economy Standard to Meet California’s Standard…and Ford likes it!
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org —
... Today, the Obama administration announced new regulations for fuel efficiency that raise the federal standard to be on a par with the California state standard. And the great news for veterans from the old Ford campaign – now Ford’s CEO is pleased. ...
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