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EPA: GHG emissions standards for cars and light trucks should be revised; joint process with NHTSA (updated with more reactions)

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Administrator Pruitt also announced the start of a joint process with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to develop a notice and comment rulemaking to set revised GHG emissions standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. The Obama Administration’s determination was wrong. This decision takes the U.S.

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President Obama Asks Congress for Carbon Cap Legislation; to Spend $15B per Year on Energy Technologies

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We know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21 st century. And yet, it is China that has launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient. But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win.

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Waxman/Markey Bill Accelerates Infrastructure and Build-out for Plug-Ins, Calls for Harmonization of Motor Vehicle GHG Standards; 3% of Emissions Allowances for Cap-and-Trade Go to Auto Industry

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The major climate and energy bill introduced last week by House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Henry Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Edward Markey— H.R. 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act. Electric Vehicle Infrastructure. Markup on the bill begins on Monday, 18 May.

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Ford Exec Cites US Energy Policies As Critical Factor in Shaping Future Vehicle Fleet, Calls for Cap-and-Trade Program

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Cischke cited the recent agreement on one national standard for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions regulations as an example of how the government, the auto industry and the environmental community can work together toward common goals. The agreement provides a framework to reach an average fuel economy standard of 35.5

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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Now are we still stuck maintaining our addiction with clean needles, or, best case, settling for methadone? Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power. It helps that the auto industry will be building more efficient new vehicles.

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Catching Up To China In The EV Race Will Require New Thinking

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by Charles Morris Auto industry analysts disagree about the timeline for the electrification of the world’s transport system, but there’s one thing they all agree on: China has pulled far ahead of the US. Originally posted on EVANNEX.

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Advanced Turbocharged, Direct Injected Gasoline Engines Poised to Take on Diesels in US and in Europe for Reduced Fuel Consumption and Emissions

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Tom Cackette, Chief Deputy Executive Office of the California Air Resources Board, spent the bulk of his talk during the opening panel discussing the response to climate change, which he called “ the defining environmental challenge of this century. smog and particulates. smog and particulates. Tom Cackette.

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