WASHINGTON -- Last January, President Bush called on Congress to reduce our nation's consumption of gasoline by 20 percent in 10 years by modernizing CAFE standards and greatly expanding the use of alternative fuels. We congratulate the United States Senate for their effort to address the challenge of the President's...
The months-delayed energy bill got a pre-Thanksgiving boost last week as a letter by the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee indicated optimism that legislators could work out a compromise over fuel economy standards. Lawmakers in both the House and Senate are mulling a dual standard that would...
The House of Representatives on Aug. 4 passed its version of energy legislation that provides incentives to build biomass factories and for research into cellulosae ethanol and biodiesel, but it does not include any fueleconomy provision for large trucks or passenger vehicles."This legislation takes our nation's energy policy in a...
House Democrats will bring to the floor Thursday or Friday their energy package, but though the bill includes a $3.5 billion package to boost cellulosic ethanol, noticeably absent from HR 3221 is any increased mandate for the use of ethanol or other alternative fuels. A proposed amendment that would have...
Yet-to-be introduced energy legislation is increasingly seen as the vehicle for passing a number of gasoline-related initiatives, including ones dealing with vehicle fuel economy and price gouging. Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Ak.) vowed Monday he would add anti-price gouging language to the Republican energy legislation reportedly under development by the Senate...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate rejected a proposal to require a sharp increase in automobile fuel economy Tuesday after concerns were raised that it would lead to a loss of auto industry jobs and limit consumers' ability to buy larger cars and SUVs. By a 65-32 vote, the Senate...
Due to the many requests we have received for an index of Octane Week's articles, we are proud to provide the information in this final issue of 2002. We hope the following will be a useful reference to the stories of the past year, organized by topic, issue date and...
On March 13, 2002, by a vote of 62 to 38, the Senate passed a substitute amendment that killed the stringent corporate average fuel economy CAFE regulations Sen. Tom Daschle (D.-S.D.) and Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D.-N.M.) had proposed as part of the comprehensive energy bill (S 517). After a heated...
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly defeated a push by "greens" to force radical boosts in corporate average fuel economy CAFE standards for the U.S. vehicle fleet. Instead, by a 62-38 vote, the Senate sent all future CAFE deliberations to the National Highway Traffic & Safety Administration NHTSA, which is charged with...
WASHINGTON, March 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- This past weekend, the National Environmental Trust Action Fund released a new 30-second television ad blasting U.S. automakers for opposing strong vehicle fuel efficiency standards, or CAFE, in the energy legislation currently before the U.S. Senate. "The auto industry is engaging in its usual...
US Senators Propose Tough Fuel-Economy Rules Two pieces of US legislation -- one from Senate Democrats and the other from a prominent Republican -- have recommended drastic increases in fuel-economy standards for vehicles, raising the bar for the Senate when it debates the issue as part of an...
Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman said Friday ahead of the Senate's much-anticipated energy debate this week that despite a "great deal" of commonality between Democrat and Republican proposals, passage of an energy bill is not assured. The senator used the word "if" several times...
On September 15, by a vote of 40 to 55, the Senate rejected an amendment to the fiscal year 2000 Transportation appropriations bill (HR 2084) sponsored by Sen. Slade Gorton (R.Wash.) that would have expressed the sense of the Senate that the Deparunent of Transportation should have the power to...
During the week of September 13, the Senate stopped liberals from slipping in a change that would have allowed the Department of Transportation to "study" an increase in the CAFE regulations covering the fuel economy of new cars. This would all but certainly have led to mandated higher fuel efficiency,...
The energy bill approved by the U.S. Senate includes increases on CAFE standards and the Renewable Fuels Standard RFS. Now that the Senate has passed H.R. 6, "The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007," it will go back to the U.S. Hous The energy bill approved by the U.S....
The energy bill approved by the U.S. Senate includes increases on CAFE standards and the Renewable Fuels Standard RFS. Now that the Senate has voted on the bill, which is also known as H.R. 6, "The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007,"The energy bill approved by the U.S. Senate...
Shortly after passing a Civil Rights bill in late October, Congress again chose to avoid dealing with energy policy by failing to block a filibuster of S.1220, the comprehensive energy package introduced by Senate Energy Committee chairman L. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana and ranking Republican Malcolm...
Autoworkers may begin to breathe a sigh of relief after hearing that the controversial CAFE legislation was amended this month by the Senate.Autoworkers may begin to breathe a sigh of relief after hearing that the controversial CAFE legislation was amended this month by the Senate.
Whether it is Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) or Sen. John Kerry's (D- Mass.) CAFE bill, or a combination of the two that forms the basis for debate on fuel economy standards, automakers are concerned and environmentalists are pleased. Refiners are attent Whether it is Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.)...
The Senate's lead proponents of tougher fuel economy standards, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) resolved their minor differences about corporate average fuel economy standards CAFE and the basis they will play in the Senate energ The Senate's lead proponents of tougher fuel economy standards, Sens....
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