Obama aims for tougher fuel economy rules for big vehicles

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Time for a 'Telecom Act' for clean energy
Guess Bloggers Ken Berlin and Bracken Hendricks first posted this on TPM Cafe. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Senate livability bill has no teeth. That’s okay
More: Department of Housing and Urban Development , Department of Transportation , EPA , news , Obama Administration , Placemaking , Politics , Senate , Smart Growth , Transportation Atlanta was awarded $47 million last week for a new streetcar line.

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...

Big Methane Biogas Blowout Planned for U.S. Farmers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture are teaming up to help farmers invest in Methane biogas recovery , to the tune of $3.9 million over the next five years. The new funds represent a big push for a rapidly growing trend that enables farmers to reclaim a Renewable Energy resource, cut their utility costs, and take a big chunk out of their Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The new partnership aims to expand the existing AgStar program for reducing Methane...

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...

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...

Trucking industry gives initial praise to proposed carbon, efficiency controls
Trucking-industry groups are giving favorable initial reaction to the Obama Administrations first-time proposed Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Efficiency requirements for medium- and heavy-duty Vehicles amid merely lukewarm support from Environmental groups. While industry groups are still reviewing the proposed performance standards unveiled Monday from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), they match up well with industry...

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...

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...

China refuses to budge on greenhouse gases
Beijing — China refused to budge Wednesday on its demands that rich nations commit to large Greenhouse Gas cuts at upcoming Climate Change talks, while also declining to put a ceiling on its own Emissions. China and other Developing nations will call on rich Countries to cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels at negotiations in Copenhagen in December, said Yu Qingtai, China's top Climate negotiator. "We have all along believed that due to the historical...

Hawaii Representative Crafting ‘Environmentally Responsible’ Plan That Would Endanger His State
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Climate Action: Down to Business
This is the first two parts of a multi-part series by Guest Blogger William Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project . 1. THE SITUATION There will come a time when Governments are forced to Act on Global Climate Change. Its impacts will be increasingly devastating and undeniable. Its costs will swell like a Tsunami. We will see many more Katrinas with Victims stranded not because Governments are incompetent, but because they are overwhelmed. When that...

Ken Buck would let climate change ruin Colorado and unilaterally disarm its clean energy leadership
Tea Party favorite and would-be GOP Senator from Colorado, Ken Buck, has burst into the National scene with his Climate denial (see Buck embraces Inhofe: Global Warming is the greatest Hoax ). Sure a study by the Aspen Global Change Institute forecasts that if Global Carbon Emissions continue to rise at their current pace, Aspen could warm by some 14 degrees by century’s end giving it a feel similar to Amarillo, TX. Hey, there will always be hiking! And sure another ...