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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

The Senate on Thursday confirmed acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler to head the agency.

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JULY 19, 2019

The EPA's plans to freeze fuel economy and emissions standards have been put on hold until at least Labor Day, sources familiar with the plans told Bloomberg earlier this week.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

With Biden fuel economy rules revealed late Thursday, the EPA expects that “strong hybrid” powertrains will make up just 5% of new sales in 2026, and plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles combined will make up just 8% then. For the past three years, plug-in vehicles have amounted to about 2% of U.S.

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APRIL 2, 2018

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the completion of the Midterm Evaluation (MTE) process for the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks for model years 2022-2025, and his final determination that the current standards are not appropriate and should be revised.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

The EPA recently announced it will roll back the Clean Power Plan, one of former President Obama's milestone efforts to fight climate change, and now the agency plans to axe another rule limiting emissions. Remarkably, the regulation that EPA.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

After wiping out plans to continue boosting fuel economy standards earlier this month, the EPA on Tuesday proposed rolling back emissions standards on electric power plants.

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MARCH 12, 2012

The Obama Administration released a progress report highlighting its achievements in meeting the “all-of-the-above” energy plan outlined in the Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future released last year. —President Obama. Transportation. That goal has been accomplished, one year ahead of schedule, according to the report.

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AUGUST 6, 2011

The White House issued a statement that President Barack Obama will announce fuel efficiency standards for work trucks, buses, and other on-road heavy-duty vehicles on Tuesday at a visit to Interstate Moving Services in Springfield, Virginia. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 4, 2013

Following EPA head Lisa Jackson's resignation at the end of December, President Obama will nominate Gina McCarthy as her successor. McCarthy will become the Environmental Protection Agency's new administrator, following her role as head of the air and radiation office.

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MAY 24, 2009

President Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate Dr. Paul T. Anastas to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development in the post of Assistant Administrator. Dr. Anastas , considered the ”Father of Green Chemistry“ is the Teresa and H.

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

In response to a court order, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized an update to its national air quality standards for harmful fine particle pollution (PM 2.5 ), including soot, setting the annual health (primary) standard at 12 µg/m 3. EPA is also retaining the existing secondary standards (environmental) for PM 2.5

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MARCH 10, 2016

The US EPA will begin developing regulations for methane emissions from existing oil and gas sources—e.g., EPA has already tacken actions to limit methane emissions. Hence, EPA’s coming proposed expansion of regulations to all existing wells. oil and gas wells. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 15, 2012

Source: EPA. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed updates to its national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for harmful fine particle pollution (PM 2.5 ). EPA’s proposal would strengthen the annual health standard for PM 2.5 EPA is proposing two options for this 24?hour Click to enlarge.

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MAY 30, 2018

The EPA's Science Advisory Board, tasked with agency oversight, is taking issue with at least three of EPA Administrator Scott Priutt's signature decisions. First, according to a Bloomberg report, is Pruitt's decision to freeze fuel economy standards and eliminate increases that had been approved during the Obama Administration.

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APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the first applications for registration of ethanol for use in making gasoline that contains up to 15% ethanol (E15). EPA is not requiring the use or sale of E15. On 13 October 2010, EPA granted the first partial waiver for E15 for use in MY2007 and newer light-duty motor vehicles.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

US President Barack Obama announced fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emission standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. The agencies’ scopes are the same except that EPA is including recreational on-highway vehicles (RVs, or motor homes) within its rulemaking, while NHTSA is not including these vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Earlier post.). A proposal for existing plants is due in 2014, with targeted file rule in 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

million additional cars on US roads are likely as a result of EPA inaction on finalizing the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rules, according to a new white paper issued by The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). Increased greenhouse gas emissions equal to 4.4

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a reduction in the cellulosic biofuel and total renewable fuel standards (RFS) for 2014. Specifically, EPA is proposing a total renewable fuel target of 15.21 Specifically, EPA is proposing a total renewable fuel target of 15.21 billion gallons. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

The EPA regulations limiting the amount of carbon that can be emitted by existing powerplants may be the most crucial step forward in environmental policy made by the eight-year Obama Administration. But those regulations will apparently be late in arriving for public comment--and they face a notably more hostile U.S.

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APRIL 7, 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has chosen AVL to provide a battery test system that includes vehicle-simulation capabilities that allow maneuver-based testing at the battery level as part of an initiative related to fuel economy and establishing electrification standards for hybrid and electric vehicles.

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MAY 21, 2010

US President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to create a first-ever National Policy to increase fuel efficiency and decrease greenhouse gas pollution from medium- and heavy-duty trucks for Model Years 2014-2018.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to maintain existing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards through 2025. Enacted by the Obama Administration in 2012, the standards call for automakers to achieve a fleet average of 54.5 mpg (equivalent to about 38 mpg in the real world) by that year.

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MARCH 29, 2013

"Cleaner cars need cleaner fuels"--that's the message from a group of automakers in support of new EPA rules to clean up gasoline. According to a senior Obama administration official (via The.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country, President Barack Obama yesterday laid out three measures intended to work in concert to boost biofuels production and reduce US dependence on petroleum. President Obama. The EPA also set the 2010 RFS volume standard at 12.95 per gallon.

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MARCH 31, 2010

In a speech at Andrews Air Force Base today, President Obama said that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Deport of Transportation (DOT) will sign the joint final rule establishing greenhouse gas emission standards and corporate average fuel economy standards for light-duty vehicles for model years 2012-2016 tomorrow.

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JULY 26, 2018

Sixteen states joined an effort this week to petition courts to review a rollback of an Obama-era regulation that capped the number of "glider" trucks, Transport Topics reported. Glider trucks are new bodies fitted with older diesel engines that predate emissions controls.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Former and realigned EPA research programs and strategic goals. Dr. Anastas, appointed to the EPA by President Obama, is known widely as the “Father of Green Chemistry” for his groundbreaking work on the design and manufacture of chemicals that are nonhazardous and environmentally benign. Credit: ACS, Anastas 2012.

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APRIL 13, 2012

The US Departments of Energy (DOE) and of the Interior (DOI), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a formal partnership to coordinate and align all research associated with development of the US’ unconventional natural gas and oil resources such as shale gas and oil. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun the process of reconsidering its decision denying California the waiver required to set standards controlling greenhouse gases from motor vehicles. The request was denied by then-EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on 6 March 2008. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 12, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency, would step down now that President Obama is in his second term. And for once during an EPA hearing, the.' It''s long been known that Lisa Jackson, the current administrator of the U.S.

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MARCH 21, 2009

This is Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 that President Obama signed into law 17 February. EPA anticipates awarding 10-12 cooperative agreements, whose maximum value each shall not exceed $500,000. EPA plans to provide the funding in June.

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MAY 18, 2009

The US auto industry, via the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, is lining up to support a new national, harmonized program to reduce carbon emissions and fuel consumption that President Obama will announce on Tuesday, 19 May. Autos represent 17% of all anthropogenic CO 2 in the US, according to EPA. —Dave McCurdy.

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JUNE 30, 2009

The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. California requested from EPA the waiver required for implementation of the Pavley regulations in December 2005.

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MARCH 31, 2010

The Obama Administration will expand oil and gas development and exploration on the US Outer Continental Shelf, while protecting fisheries, tourism, and places off US coasts that it says are not appropriate for development. President Obama is withdrawing Bristol Bay from consideration for oil and gas development through 2017.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Researchers from Rice University and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report in a paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry that particularly in Northeastern cities, ozone levels dropped even beyond what was anticipated by cutting emissions of NO x from 2002 to 2006. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

US EPA Region 9 8-hour ozone trends, 1979-2000. Source: EPA. In 1997, EPA first established the 8-hour ozone standard, which replaced the older 1-hour ozone standard (0.12 EPA said that the air districts are making steady progress toward meeting the 0.08 Click to enlarge. parts per million (ppm) by 2024. Earlier post.).

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