Sentences with phrase «fuel efficiency standards»

Eight out of ten say they would like to see more emphasis on fuel efficiency standards for vehicles and renewable energy development.

Now, we went through 30 years where we didn't raise fuel efficiency standards on cars.

What are your specific views regarding auto fuel efficiency standards?

So last year, we established a groundbreaking national fuel efficiency standard for cars and trucks.

The primary choice here is between relying on a carbon price and imposing fuel efficiency standards.

For example, it's set stricter fuel efficiency standards for new cars and light trucks.

These ambitious but achievable fuel efficiency standards for new cars and small trucks are already working.

This summer, we're going to propose the first - ever fuel efficiency standards for heavy - duty trucks.

Fuel efficiency standards affect only new vehicles and are subject to the rebound effect, in which some of the efficiency gain is offset by the increased use due to lower operating costs.

We've raised fuel efficiency standards to ambitious new levels.

And these investments will help businesses develop new technologies that vehicle makers can use to meet higher fuel efficiency standards.

That includes stricter fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks.

His administration delivered the strongest increases in fuel efficiency standards for passenger cars in decades with promises to cut carbon emissions by 6 billion metric tons by 2025.

Although there have been steps taken by individual states (i.e. RGGI and California) to regulate GHG emissions, we have had little success in implementing measures to reduce emissions on a national level, other than piecemeal steps like higher vehicle fuel efficiency standards which are often implemented for other non-climate reasons.

This was the first step to the President ultimately signing into law increased fuel efficiency standards in late 2007.

Finally, while the Smart Electric Drive looks like a great electric vehicle and another sign of progress in the automotive industry, it's worth noting that it's owned by Daimler AG, and marketed here by Mercedes - Benz USA — a member of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers which recently lobbied for a review of federal fuel efficiency standards.

The EPA's recent move to roll back automobile fuel efficiency standards benefits almost no one except auto manufacturers, who save on R&D costs, and oil companies, for whom greater fuel consumption translates into more revenues.

In the weeks since Musk met with Trump, the president has rolled back fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, signed an executive order to undo Barack Obama's clean power plan, and proposed a budget that would gut the Environmental Protection Agency's climate change, pollution and energy efficiency programs.

I have heard Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly speak out in support of improved fuel efficiency standards.

NHTSA set fuel efficiency standards which target a new vehicle average of 34.1 miles per gallon in MY2016.

However, the U.S. has pledged to reduce emissions by 26 - 28 % from 2005 levels by 2025 in its internationally determined contribution (INDC) to the UN process, meaning that the US must make more than an additional 16 % reduction from fuel efficiency standards, energy efficiency programs, non-CO2 greenhouse gas (e.g. methane, hydrofluorocarbons) reductions, and other components of Obama's climate action plan in order to meet its INDC.

Three - quarters of U.S. adults (76 %) say corporate tax incentives to encourage carbon emission reductions among businesses can make a difference, and roughly seven - in - ten (71 %) say the same about tougher fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks.

We've fought for the implementation of historic fuel efficiency standards that are helping keep Detroit competitive, creating tens of thousands of jobs, and getting families farther on a gallon of gas.

The Transportation Department regulates the nation's vehicles, airplanes, railroads, pipelines, ports and highways - including whether to allow the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, over people and whether U.S. fuel efficiency standards should be revised.

It says fuel efficiency standards will be tightened and that transport systems must be transformed.

In the long run, the auto industry's utter financial ruin might have been the best thing to happen to them, from a green perspective: they certainly weren't going to get fuel efficiency standards up any time soon without it, and now it's lead to potential tailpipe legislation passing — which will force them to clean up their acts.

Then, read «The Road Ahead» — though dated, it's a great piece on the benefits of strong fuel efficiency standards.

«Our study highlights the gains that are possible from tighter truck fuel efficiency standards and sets out other cost - effective steps to modernise freight transport.»

The EPA first set fuel efficiency standards in the 1970s to reduce the nation's reliance on foreign oil, after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries oil crisis sent the price per barrel skyrocketing.

The Trump Administration announced the rollback of 2012 Obama - era fuel efficiency standards for vehicles citing concerns about vehicle safety, technology lapses, and the unpopularity of electric and cleaner cars.

In an interview with CNBC, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said the Trump administration will make an announcement on fuel efficiency standards for cars «very soon,» stressing that he and President Donald Trump believe current standards were rushed through.

Revenues from the gas tax have been declining, because it is not indexed to inflation, and because fuel efficiency standards have risen.

The agreement grew out of the new fuel efficiency standards passed by Congress in 2007, the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, which precipitated global warming pollution standards for vehicles under the Clean Air Act, and global warming pollution standards enacted in California and subsequently adopted by 13 other states and the District of Columbia.

Also, OECD governments, driven by global warming and energy security worries, have tightened fuel efficiency standards, while high prices in recent years have also pushed consumers away from gas guzzlers.

And over the next five years, we expect fuel efficiency standards in cars and light trucks to reach an average of 35.5 miles per gallon.

Yr3 - Yr5 — Global Agreement of MV fuel efficiency standards to be ramped up progressively over the following decade to Yr15.

The Energy Bill that passed the Senate is being hailed for the first increase in automotive fuel efficiency standards in over 2 decades, and well it should.

How many people know how our automobile fuel efficiency standards compare to those of Europe?