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NRDC's Earth Action Center: Results
Historic energy bill to raise mileage standards for first time in decades Throughout 2007 activists sent tens of thousands of messages ... time in more than 30 years. The bill also sets new lighting and building efficiency standards, and ensures essential environmental protections for biofuels development. Although the Senate stripped the final bill of ...
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Climate Change Blog: June 2005 Monthly Archives
Hummer, scoffing at hybrid technology and fighting congressional efforts to impose higher mileage standards on U.S. automakers - would not only be in America's economic interest, it would also be in America's geopolitical interest. Posted by Dr. Glen Barry | Permalink | Comments (1) | More on geo green ...
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Community Solutions: Conference Welcome
It is the corporations like GM and Ford who have built gas guzzlers and fight the introduction of mileage standards. It is the oil and coal companies like Exxon and Peabody that have lied about the effects of energy on the environment and are against any carbon restrictions. The corporations rule the world and are responsible ...
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Global Warming Action - A Publication of Fresh Energy
Roundtable co-chairman Edward B. Rust Jr., chairman and CEO of State Farm, said in a ... in fighting global warming: The Markey-Platts Fuel Economy Bill (HR 1506)—this bill would increase gas mileage standards, saving consumers money by making their cars go further on a gallon of gas while ...
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Wolves in Green Clothing
As the struggle to tighten mileage standards was playing out in Congress last month, William Clay Ford Jr. became the industry's most ... 's Dan Becker now fighting to put a mere study of CAF (Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency) standards for SUVs and other gas guzzlers on the agenda, defends the "radically cleaner" car. By fighting ...
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Minnesota's Energy Future: Table of Contents
Price-Anderson Act 142 Part III: Conservation, Jevons Paradox and Alternative Energies 144 Conservation & Jevons Paradox 144 Conservation 145 Consumption 148 Efficiency & Productivity 150 Conservation and Vehicle Mileage Standards 151 Conservation Summary 153 Alternative Energies 155 Net Energy 156 Table 12: Comparative Net Energies 158 Implications in Brief 158 Tar Sands 159 Hydrogen 161 Storage ...
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automobiles blog
Monday California sued the Bush administration for "illegally adopting 'dangerously misguided' gas mileage rules." In a lawsuit backed by 11 states, the suit alleges that the Highway Traffic Safety Administration's new mileage standards violate federal law by ignoring both the environment environmental impact on oil use and the country's ...
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KyotoNOW!
Political and corporate irresponsibility and greed must be counterbalanced. The NYTimes reported during Bush's June '01 trip to Europe that a full 50% of Americans support ...
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Washington Clean Car Information
Auto makers must deliver vehicles to Washington that meet clean car standards. Auto dealers may only sell, rent, or lease vehicles for use in Washington that meet these ... , and the kind of fuel used. Passenger cars must meet certain fuel mileage standards. Generally, the better the fuel mileage, the ``cleaner'' the car. For example, smaller cars typically get the best ...
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Regulations & Standards | Fuel Economy | US EPA
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)requires vehicle manufacturers to comply with the gas mileage, or fuel economy, standards set by the Department of Transportation (DOT). CAFE values are obtained using the ... is authorized to assess penalties based on the information EPA supplies and to modify the standards. The Gas Guzzler Tax is imposed on manufacturers of new cars (not minivans, sport utility ...
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