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Government to propose truck fuel efficiency rules
Source: Associated Press Plan is expected to seek about a 20 percent reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel consumption Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules coming from the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in...

Obama aims for tougher fuel economy rules for big vehicles
The Obama Administration has announced plans to develop more strict rules regarding the fuel economy of big vehicles such as school buses, garbage trucks, and delivery vans. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving forward with a fuel economy concept for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. The first models to be subject to the new rules will be those produced in 2014. Proponents of the Regulation hope for 20 percent less Greenhouse Gas Emissions and fuel...

Obama aims for tougher fuel economy rules for big vehicles
The Obama Administration has announced plans to develop more strict rules regarding the fuel economy of big vehicles such as school buses, garbage trucks, and delivery vans. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving forward with a fuel economy concept for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. The first models to be subject to the new rules will be those produced in 2014. Proponents of the Regulation hope for 20 percent less Greenhouse Gas Emissions and fuel...

Obama Administration Issues New Emission Standards For Trucks
The White House issued new rules for heavy vehicles like "tractor-trailers, buses, delivery vans, heavy pickup trucks, cement mixers." They will have to reduce fuel consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 10 to 20 percent, depending on the type of truck, over the next eight years. The rules were issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, and they don't need Congressional approval, which is good for Obama because Republicans have a tendency to not believe in man-made Global Warming....

10/25/2010: DOT, EPA Propose the Nation’s First Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Trucks and Buses
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced the first national standards to reduce Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve Fuel Efficiency of heavy-duty trucks and buses. This comprehensive national program is projected to reduce GHG emissions by about 250 million metric tons and save 500 million barrels of oil over the lives of the vehicles produced within the program’s first five years. “These new standards are...

Mediterranean nations agree to combat climate change
VOUGIAGMENI, Greece — Some 15 Mediterranean countries, including Israel and the Palestinian Authority, agreed Friday to work together to combat the effects of Climate Change that threaten the region. The countries signed a declaration at a Climate Change conference near Athens in Greece which called for "contributing to the emergence of low carbon, resource efficient and Climate resilient economies." "Climate Change threatens our way of life as people of the Mediterranean," said Greek...

EPA head: New carbon controls on big trucks and buses 'win for planet'
The Obama Administration on Monday continued its push to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Vehicles, proposing the first-ever Emissions limits for medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses. The joint requirement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) would require a 20 percent cut in Emissions and fuel use from long-haul tractor-trailer trucks for model years 2014 to 2018. This will be a win-win-win, for reducing oil...

DOT, EPA Propose Nation's First-Ever Emissions, Fuel-Efficiency Standards for Trucks and Buses
Posted by Secretary Ray LaHood on October 25, 2010 at 02:22 PM EDT Today, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and I proposed the first national standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency for medium and heavy-duty trucks, vans, and buses. This is a historic first step to address categories of vehicles previously excluded from America's corporate average Fuel economy guidelines. Currently, the vehicles we propose covering account for 20% of the transportation sector's...

Government seeks truck fuel efficiency rules
Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules coming from the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year. The plan is expected to seek about a 20 percent reduction in Greenhouse gas...

Gov't Pushing More Fuel Efficiency for Trucks
Monday, October 25, 2010 By Ken Thomas, Associated Press Washington (AP) - Future generations of semi-trucks, school buses and large pickups will need to cut Fuel consumption and Emissions by 10 to 20 percent under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules for trucks announced Monday by the Obama Administration. For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department released proposed Fuel economy requirements and reductions in tailpipe Emissions for medium- and...

Obama aims to toughen big-vehicle mileage rules
Washington — Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks, and heavy-duty pickup trucks would have to use less Energy under Fuel-efficiency rules proposed by the Obama Administration — the first ever for such Vehicles. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year. The plan is expected to...

Seeking Crowd-Sourced Climate Pacts
A couple of years ago, the Center for Collective Intelligence (I wonder about the potential for this every day in running a blog) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched the Climate Collaboratorium. The goal was to split the Climate challenge — a “ super wicked ” lacework of science, policy, Diplomacy and economics — into manageable parts and foster productive online discourse aimed at distilling solutions. I included the project in a roundup of online...

State Government Reporting
October 20, 2010 U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Wednesday that despite getting the federal Environmental Protection Agency to hold off on proposed Water Pollution standards, he did not know if the regulations would be significantly changed in the 30 day delay... Recent headlines

EPA inspector general urges more rigorous inspections of water supplies
It took years for Illinois officials to discover south suburban Crestwood was pumping contaminated water to its residents, in part because the state took village officials at their word that nothing was wrong. Such lax Oversight is a problem in scores of communities throughout the nation, according to a new report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Inspector General that urged federal and state officials to conduct more rigorous inspections and adopt tighter reporting guidelines....

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--> Are we finally going to clean the skies of smog-causing nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide? The Environmental Protection Agency proposes new rules this week that would force Power Plants in 31 states, mostly in the East, to cut emissions of both to more than half of their 2005 levels by 2014. The new rules take advantage of the “good neighbor” provision of the Clear Air Act to cut interstate transportnot cars and trucks, but the drift of air pollutants across state borders....

Colorado Climate Scientists Tell Ken Buck: Global Warming Is Not A ‘Hoax’
Colorado Climate Scientists Tell Ken Buck: Global Warming Is Not A ‘Hoax’ Colorado’s Climate scientists — among the world’s leaders in the field — have sharply dismissed the assertions made by the state’s Republican Candidate for the U.S. Senate that Global Warming is a “Hoax.” Colorado is a hub of American Climate Science, home to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the Natural...

Stinky Renewable Energy Source Creates Smog
California is the nation's largest Dairy state, which means that while cows there produce a lot of milk, they also produce something else — Methane gas. And Methane is a powerful contributor to Climate Change. Some farmers, at a great up-front cost, are capturing the gas and using it to create Renewable Electricity for their Farms. But by solving one environmental problem, they're running headlong into another. Double-Edged Sword For nearly 100 years, John Fiscalini's family has run a...

More miles per gallon a goal of first-ever efficiency rules for medium- and heavy-duty trucks
Washington — Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules coming from the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year. The plan is expected to seek about a 20 percent reduction in...

Government to propose truck fuel efficiency rules
Related Articles Washington (AP) Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules coming from the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year. The plan is expected to seek about a 20...

Govt proposing that many trucks improve efficiency
Washington – Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules coming from the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year. The plan is expected to seek about a 20 percent reduction in...

Govt proposing that many trucks improve efficiency
Washington (AP) - Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules coming from the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year. The plan is expected to seek about a 20 percent reduction in...

Government to propose truck fuel efficiency rules
Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules coming from the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year. The plan is expected to seek about a 20 percent reduction in Greenhouse gas...

Govt proposing that many trucks improve efficiency
Washington (AP) - Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever Fuel Efficiency rules coming from the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are moving ahead with a proposal for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning with those sold in the 2014 model year and into the 2018 model year. The plan is expected to seek about a 20 percent reduction in...

AFP Releases Paper Detailing How EPA Could Force Cap-and-Trade
Washington, DCThe Free Market Grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) today released a working paper engaging the debate over whether the EPA can use the Clean Air Act to enact a cap-and-trade program for Greenhouse Gases (GHGs). The paperentitled: Of Elephants and Mouseholes: How EPA Could Revive Cap-and-Trade examines the statutory structure of the Clean Air Act and identifies two existing programs that EPA could contort to enact a GHG cap-and-trade program. The paper also...

Meg Whitman's Love Affair with Texas Oil
JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH In the first televised debate between the Candidates for Governor of the Golden State, Meg Whitman had the audacity to brag about turning the awesome coast of California into- choke -Texas! My first thought was if she likes Texas so much, why doesn't she move there? My second thought was the horrific BP Oil Disaster that's killing everything it touches for decades to come. Meg Whitman is a shrewd corporatist trained to think only about profits for Big...