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US House to EPA: We won’t let you set emissions laws

June 29, 2012 at 9:03 am

by Antony Ingram Green Car Reports June 29, 2012 With 2025’s 54.5 mpg corporate average fuel economy standards set to be finalized towards the end of this year, carmakers will also have to meet a 34.1 mpg average by 2016. Alongside these economy targets, carmakers–and perhaps other businesses–will also be bound by the EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions limits. Well, that’s if the House Appropriations Committee doesn’t have its way. The committee has concerns over the affordability of the regulations, which […]

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House panel votes to bar EPA from setting tail-pipe limits

June 28, 2012 at 4:35 pm

by David Shepardson Detroit News June 28, 2012 Washington ‚ÄîThe House Appropriations Committee has voted to bar the Environmental Protection Agency from setting vehicle tailpipe emissions limits for the 2017-25 model years, or allowing California to set its own rules. But the effort faces an uphill battle in the Senate and from the Obama administration, which oppose the GOP move. Last year, the Senate and Obama administration refused to go along with the House, which had approved the same amendment […]

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Gearing Up: Smart Standards Create Good Jobs Building Cleaner Cars

June 28, 2012 at 8:22 am

By Chris Busch, John Laitner, Rob McCulloch, and Ivana Stosic The BlueGreen Alliance and American Council for Energy-Efficient Economy June 2012 In 2011, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed joint fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for new cars and light trucks. These proposed standards would reach the equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) and 163 grams of carbon dioxide per mile (g/mi) for the average new vehicle in 2025. Hereafter we […]

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Auto makers proving critics wrong in race to meet 2016 fuel efficiency standards

June 27, 2012 at 12:29 pm

by Jeremy Cato The Globe and Mail June 27, 2012 The doomsayers were saying it would not happen, it could not happen, that car companies were incapable of meeting strict 2016 fuel economy regulations without suffering cataclysmic damage to their health as viable companies. Apparently they were wrong. Just days ago, for example, Nissan Canada proclaimed that, thanks to a strict diet, technology improvements and an aerodynamic design, the all-new 2013 Nissan Altima will offer best-in-class fuel economy figures of […]

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EPA wins historic victory on emissions regulations

June 26, 2012 at 12:27 pm

by BusinessGreen staff Business Green June 26, 2012 A federal appeals court today upheld legal limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and vehicles in what was hailed as a “huge victory” for green groups and the Obama administration. A three judge panel unanimously upheld the view put forward by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that carbon dioxide is a danger to public health that can be regulated under the existing Clean Air Act… The move seems to leave […]

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Federal court upholds Obama EPA’s climate change regulations

June 26, 2012 at 12:23 pm

by Ben Geman The Hill June 26, 2012 A federal appeals court has upheld Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse gas regulations, a victory for the Obama administration that’s also sure to inflame election-year political battles over the White House green agenda. Environmentalists heralded the three-judge panel’s unanimous 82-page ruling that leaves intact EPA’s first-time regulations and authority to craft future rules to help combat global warming. “Today’s ruling by the court confirms that EPA’s common sense solutions to address climate […]

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