EPA head: New carbon controls on big trucks and buses 'win for planet'

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...

EPA plan could cut truck emissions
Large commercial trucks would be forced to slash their Greenhouse Gas Emissions by as much as 20 percent under a new proposal from the Obama Administration.  The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department on Monday announced the first-ever Greenhouse Gas limits and Fuel-efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses. Continue Reading Text Size Politico 44 The draft rules would mandate cuts in Fuel consumption and Emissions by up to 20 percent for long-haul...

White House seeks fuel efficiency standards for trucks, buses
Washington — The Obama Administration on Monday proposed the first Fuel-efficiency and Greenhouse gas reduction standards for trucks and buses and said the new program would reduce the nation's use of oil, cut Emissions of heat-trapping Gases and save money. The new standards will apply to semi trucks, heavy-duty pickups and vans, and vehicles such as school buses and fire engines. The standards phase in for model years 2014 to 2018. The new standards are what Environmental...

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...

Americans For Prosperity Lies: ‘We’re Not Arguing The Science Of Climate Change’
Americans For Prosperity Lies: ‘We’re Not Arguing The Science Of Climate Change’ Tonight, the Center for American Progress Action Fund is screening the Documentary (Astro)Turf Wars . Following the screening, the ThinkProgress Wonk Room will host a panel with director Taki Oldham, Americans for Prosperity’s Phil Kerpen, and Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. The panel will be streamed live here . The Pollution-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) claims not to...

New Fuel Efficiency Standards Announced for Trucks
(Washington, D.C.Todd Zwillich, Transportation Nation) Proposed new Government Fuel Efficiency standards for three categories of trucks are out today. Federal agencies say the rules should boost Fuel Efficiency by 15 - 20 percent over the next eight years. Officials say their goal is to reduce CO2 emissions and improve Fuel Efficiency in combination tractors, heavy duty pickup trucks, and vans and vocational vehicles like buses. The new regulations, released by the Environmental...

Meet the Global Warming Skeptics: Ignorant Tea Party Fundamentalists, Oil Company Shills
Thursday’s front-page story by reporter John Broder on the Climate Change debate cast skeptics that the earth is dangerously Warming because of man as ignorant Bible-thumpers and tools of the Oil Industry: “ Skepticism on Climate Change Is Article of Faith for Tea Party .” Broder reported from Jasper, Indiana and found some Big fat targets for liberal disdain: At a Candidate forum here last week, Representative Baron P. Hill, a threatened Democratic Incumbent in a largely...

Environment and Climate
  In 2008, Electrabel, number one producer in Belgium, launched a large sustainable development plan for reduction of Carbon Emissions. The company, which had already reduced its CO2 Emissions by 29% since 1990, is committed to another 1.7 million-ton reduction between now and 2015.  

Climate mitigation built on eggshells
Basab Chaudhuri of the University of Calcutta and colleagues have demonstrated that the membrane that lines an eggshell can absorb almost seven times its own weight of the Greenhouse gas Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere. The Carbon Dioxide thus trapped could be stored in this form until energy-effective methods of using the gas could be found that would not compound the environmental problems associated with Carbon Emissions. Carbon Dioxide is widely used in the chemical industry for ...

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...

Rockefellers take aim at ExxonMobil
OPEC's magical Oil supplies More Videos More from Fortune Foreclosuregate: Playing with fire? 40 reasons why it's great to be a business leader under 40 Delphi ex-CEO has his day in court FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune NEW YORK (Fortune) -- It's hard to imagine why ExxonMobil shareholders are so unhappy. After all, the world's largest publicly-owned Energy company rode the Surge in Oil Prices to a record $40 Billion in earnings last year, making it by far the most...

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...

Americans for Prosperity lies: "We're not arguing the science of climate change"
The latest mantra of the anti-science, pro-pollution Extremists is, “Were not arguing the Science of Climate Change.” They do this so they can dispute the charge of “denier” to the media, but then they immediately turn around and start arguing the Science of Climate Change. Brad Johnson rips away the curtain cloaking the Tea Party puppeteers at Americans for Prosperity. The Pollution-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) claims not to question the Science of...

Politics: European Energy Companies Funding Climate Skeptic Campaigns in the U.S.
There's been no shortage of attention paid to the vast amount of money being poured in the 2010 Midterm campaigns by corporationswith the bulk of the cash going to conservative Candidates. Given the strongly skeptical views on Climate Change that now dominate the Republican Partyand especially their angrier cousins in the Tea Party that's bad news for anyone hoping Congress will act on Carbon Emissions, or even just energy as a whole. But for what greens call the Fossil-fuel lobby...

James Cameron: a bully and a gigantic hypocrite
Director James Cameron is out to save the planet . If you are skeptical of the claims of the alarmists that Man is destroying the planet via Greenhouse Gas Emissions, he calls you a denier who has your head up your backside . He’d like to have a “shootout” with you, except that, when taken up on the offer, he suddenly has other things to do… Anyway, wouldn’t you expect that, being a good little cultist of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming, he’d try...

California voters turning against Prop. 19 and Prop. 23, poll shows
By John Hoeffel and Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times California voters have turned against Controversial initiatives to legalize Marijuana and to suspend the state's Global Warming law, a poll from the Public Policy Institute of California found. Voters now oppose Proposition 19, the Marijuana legalization measure, 49% to 44%, and the measure to halt a law that aims to cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 48% to 37%.

James Cameron: a bully and a gigantic hypocrite
Director James Cameron is out to save the planet . If you are skeptical of the claims of the alarmists that Man is destroying the planet via Greenhouse Gas Emissions, he calls you a denier who has your head up your backside . He’d like to have a “shootout” with you, except that, when taken up on the offer, he suddenly has other things to do… Anyway, wouldn’t you expect that, being a good little cultist of the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming, he’d try...

It's Time for a "Telecom Act" for Clean Energy
In 1973, Motorola demonstrated the world's first cell phone, weighing in at close to four and a half pounds[1]. It was not introduced into the U.S. until 1983, and after slow growth at first, over the course of just ten years from 1997 to 2007 the total number of Mobile Phone subscriptions jumped from reaching 8% of Global population to serving nearly half of all the world's inhabitants. By the close of 2009, the number of cellular phone users had grown still further to 4.6 Billion in a world...

Hawaii Representative Crafting ‘Environmentally Responsible’ Plan That Would Endanger His State
Hawaii Representative Crafting ‘Environmentally Responsible’ Plan That Would Endanger His State It seems that Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) is crafting a plan that could lead to the inundation of Hawaii’s beaches, the extinction of its Species, and the destruction of its Water Supply. Abercrombie and John Peterson (R-PA) are creating a “working group” to establish a “ comprehensive, environmentally responsible energy plan ,” whose members will be...

But Obama's Science Czar Said this was a Good Thing
“Space Tourism to accelerate Climate Change” screams this Nature.com article that Matt Drudge links to — but then, doesn’t everything? Climate Change caused by black Carbon, also known as soot, emitted during a decade of commercial Space flight would be comparable to that from current Global aviation, researchers estimate. The findings, reported in a paper in Press in Geophysical Research Letters 1 , suggest that emissions from 1,000 private rocket launches a...

Climate: India Is Still a Long Way from Cutting Carbon
You'll hear it over and over again in the Debates over the global climate negotiations : while the U.S. has put more Carbon overall into the atmosphere than any other nation (and is still the number two emitter overall), the lion's share of future Carbon Emissions will come from the big developing nations. China, now the world's undisputed Carbon champ , gets most of the attention from the U.S., but fast-growing India is also a rising Carbon power. The country's Carbon Emissions rose 58%...

Proposed plant in Corpus Christi tries to get air permit from state before federal regulations tick in
Facing the prospect of federal limits on Carbon Emissions for new major plants or refineries after the start of the year, companies across the country are racing to get Pollution permits. Texas Regulators have showed themselves willing to oblige. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's chairman this month pressed administrative law judges to hurry up their review of one utility's proposed plant — after those same judges had previously recommended denying a permit for the plant....

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...

Transportation: The White House Puts Out Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy Vehicles
Though Congress has been (self-)stymied on Climate Change this term, the Obama Administration has taken steps of its own to deal with rising U.S. Carbon Emissions. And nowhere have they been more aggressive than in promotingmandating, really better Fuel Efficiency on our roads, as I wrote earlier this month: In May 2009 Obama brokered a deal with the Auto Industry that saw Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards rise for the first time in years, requiring automakers to meet...

Q&A; With Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Politicians using Q&A sessions to promote talking points and push half-truths is rarely worth looking at, though Grassley’s skillfull balance of promising everything to his constituents is an exception: 5. How would you lower or eliminate the federal budget deficit? According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, a discretionary spending freeze would save $1.7 trillion over the next 10 years. This freeze can be accomplished by reducing wasteful spending while protecting...