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- Auto Dealers, U.S. Chamber Take on California Climate Regulation
- Although automakers essentially signed a peace treaty last May with the Obama administration and the state of California, some arms of the industry don’t seem to have gotten the olive branch. On Tuesday, the National Automobile Dealers Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce quietly filed a preliminary...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Auto Industry and Green Groups Agree on Landmark Climate Policy
- In a swift bit of Congressional maneuvering September 24, the U.S. Senate rejected a proposed amendment from longtime global warming skeptic Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that would have effectively killed President Obama’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. What’s interesting is that the auto industry itself opposed...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Is Obama Out of Bounds on Climate Change?
- Did President Obama exceed his authority by announcing a fuel economy goalâ€"35.5 miles per gallon fleet averageâ€"for automakers in 2016? The goal (which works out to 30 mpg for trucks, 39 for cars) is part of a sweeping and unprecedented rulemaking announced earlier this week that combines Corporate Average Fuel...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
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- It's Getting Hot in Here: The High-Stakes Debate Over Fuel Economy and Climate Standards
- Sometimes you have to read between the lines of public hearing testimony, and that’s never truer than in the high-stakes negotiations over fuel-economy and climate standards. Automotive Corporate Average Fuel Economy CAFE standards have been notoriously stagnant, barely changing for 20 years. But in May, automakers, the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- EPA Transportation and Air Quality Chief Talks to BNET Autos About 35.5 MPG
- Margo Oge , a Toyota Prius driver, is the director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s office of transportation and air quality, and she sat down with BNET Autos just after a public hearing on the EPA and Department of Transportation’s proposed standards mandating that cars sold in the U.S. reach...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Fuel-Thrifty BMW Benefits From EPA's "German Provision"
- BMW is proud of what it describes as a 14 percent fuel economy jump in its U.S. car fleet between 1990 and 2005. In Europe, that improvement was even better in the same time frame, at 16 percent. In 2007, BMW AG’s fuel economy improved at four times the average...
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- More Ethanol in Gasoline? Automakers say it will "Damage" Cars
- Some 54 ethanol producers, grouped together under Growth Energy’s banner, are carrying the torch for dramatically increasing the amount of ethanol in pump gasoline from 10 to 15 percent. Will they succeed? There are technical and political arguments to be made on both sides, but for now the momentum seems...
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
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