Obama aims to toughen big-vehicle mileage rules

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 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...

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...

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 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....

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Energy Roundup: Climate rules loom; Obama lays out plan
EPA readies first-time Climate rules for trucks and buses The Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department are expected to propose joint Greenhouse Gas and mileage standards for big trucks this week. The proposal which would cover medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses could come Monday, the Associated Press reports . The plan is expected to call for about a 20 percent reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel consumption for long-haul trucks, said...

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...

AP-GfK Poll: One-Third May Still Switch Candidates
Monday, October 25, 2010 By Alan Fram, Associated Press In this Oct. 22, 2010 file photo, Bea Seliger, left, and her husband Howard Seliger, both of Baltimore, arrive to cast early votes in Maryland's General Election, in Baltimore. One in three people has yet to lock into a choice in the Nov. 2 congressional Elections, according to an Associated Press-Gfk Poll. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, File) Washington (AP) - One in three people has yet to lock onto a choice in the Nov. 2 congressional...

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 – 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...

More Barney Frank Lies Exposed
If you listen to Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) defend his role in the meltdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, he was just as blindsided as the rest of us when the two Government sponsored enterprises collapsed, triggering the Financial Crisis. Frank has been peddling this fiction ever since The Economy collapsed in September 2008. But as the The Boston Globe notes in a new, devastating article published on October 14, not many People are buying Franks lies anymore. And Frank knows it. Hes...

Obama aims to make plain where GOP, Democrats stand
Reporting from Washington — President Obama will attempt in the final week before Election Day to draw a clearer contrast between Democrat and Republican philosophies on a range of issues, starting Monday with a trip to a Small Business in Rhode Island. Last week, Obama made the longest sustained Campaign trip of his presidency, a four-day swing through Western states that ended in Minnesota on Saturday. Obama will spend more time this week at a mix of official and Campaign events,...

Watchdog: Housing Programs Reach Only a Handful
Monday, October 25, 2010 By Daniel Wagner, Associated Press Washington (AP) - A Watchdog report says that only a handful of Homeowners have been helped by certain Obama Administration housing programs. The report says that 21 families avoided Foreclosure under a program to reduce payments of borrowers with second Mortgages. It says that 342 Homeowners received permanent help from a program helping borrowers to sell their homes for less money than they owe to the bank. Both programs were...