Sentences with phrase «national fuel economy standards»

The car companies would love you to because they get a break from the federal government on meeting national fuel economy standards.

In fact, all the Center's work to fight global warming — from petitioning and litigating for warming - threatened species to enforcing key laws like the California Environmental Quality Act to opposing too - low national fuel economy standards — have played an enormous role in putting climate change on the political map, making it that much harder for those who would deny it to suppress the truth.

What we have now is a tremendous opportunity to pass strong national fuel economy standards.

POW will work to fight rollbacks to our national fuel economy standards, set by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Thankfully, in November 2007 the Center and our allies prevailed in Center for Biological Diversity v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a major lawsuit filed against the Department of Transportation for failing to properly account for greenhouse gas emissions when setting unreasonably low national fuel economy standards.

Thankfully, in November 2007 the Center won a major lawsuit against the Department of Transportation for failing to properly account for greenhouse gas emissions when it set unreasonably low national fuel economy standards for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.

Dealers Ass» n, Patchwork Proven: Why A Single National Fuel Economy Standard Is Better for America than A Patchwork of State Regulations (2009), available at http://www.nada.org/NR/rdonlyres/DBCC625E-2E8E-4291-8B23-B94C92AFF7C4/0/patchworkproven.pdf.

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The President's program will accelerate increases in fuel economy and impose the first - ever national greenhouse gas emission standards on cars and trucks

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

Under the Senate proposal, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) would divide the fleet into classes based on size or weight and set fuel - economy standards for each class to achieve an overall average of 35 mpg by 2020.

The auto standards are up for an obligatory mid-term review — the EPA will decide whether to adjust the emissions standards and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will announce its final fuel economy standards for model year 2022 — 2025 vehicles.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the California Air Resource Board (CARB) today took the first step in the mid-term evaluation of the National Program for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for light duty cars and trucks by releasing a draft Technical Assessment Report (TAR) for public comment.

The National Program does not set a single fuel economy target number for all vehicles, but instead it establishes separate footprint - based standards for passenger cars and light trucks.

For a long time now, California has always been allowed to set fuel economy and emissions standards that exceed the national standards, and auto makers simply have had to deal (usually by making all of their cars comply with the California standard).

On December 1, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed light - duty vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards and corporate average fuel economy standards for light - duty vehicles for model year 2017 — 2025.

Regulating auto emissions is complicated by the fact that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is already charged with setting new standards for cars and light trucks, under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) system.

Congress, however, never authorized EPA to determine fuel economy standards for motor vehicles, much less dictate national policy on climate change.

On April 1st, USDOT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the EPA issued harmonized fuel economy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks of model years 2012 through 2016.

The joint rulemaking marks the first major increase in fuel economy standards in three decades, and the first national GHG standards for vehicles.

The Alliance letter complained that California's «rushed effort toward a state rulemaking is not in the spirit of a collaborative effort to develop a single national program for fuel economy / GHG standards.»

Supported by automakers, unions, national security groups, and environmentalists, the standards (known as the» National Program») set fuel economy and global warming emission targets, based on vehicle size, for new cars and trucks sold in the Unitednational security groups, and environmentalists, the standards (known as the» National Program») set fuel economy and global warming emission targets, based on vehicle size, for new cars and trucks sold in the UnitedNational Program») set fuel economy and global warming emission targets, based on vehicle size, for new cars and trucks sold in the United States.

Supported by automakers, unions, national security groups, and environmentalists, the standards set fuel economy and global warming emission targets, based on vehicle size, for new cars and trucks sold in the United States.

Under her leadership, the EPA has taken sensible and important steps to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink, including implementing the first national standard for harmful mercury pollution, taking important action to combat climate change under the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon pollution.

(12) the establishment of such a vehicle fleet and distribution system would provide a large market that would mobilize private resources to substantially advance the technology and expand the production of alcohol fuels in the United States and abroad; (13) the United States has an urgent national security interest to develop alcohol fuels technology, production, and distribution systems as rapidly as possible; (14) new cars sold in the United States that are equipped with an internal combustion engine should allow for fuel competition by being flexible fuel vehicles, and new diesel cars should be capable of operating on biodiesel; and (15) such an open fuel standard would help to protect the United States economy from high and volatile oil prices and from the threats caused by global instability, terrorism, and natural disaster.

The American environmental and labor movements have often been on opposite sides of the table, whether the issue is drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or raising fuel economy standards on American - made cars.

You can download a PDF of the analysis (GM and Ford Investment Plans and California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards) but here are the key points: GM Fuel Economy For Car Fleet = 37.3 MPG If GM meets its planned 2012 fleet fuel economy levels of 37.3 mpg for new cars and 27.5 mpg for light trucks, the projected greenhouse gas emissions would comply with a national version of the California GHG emissions standaFuel Economy For Car Fleet = 37.3 MPG If GM meets its planned 2012 fleet fuel economy levels of 37.3 mpg for new cars and 27.5 mpg for light trucks, the projected greenhouse gas emissions would comply with a national version of the California GHG emissions staEconomy For Car Fleet = 37.3 MPG If GM meets its planned 2012 fleet fuel economy levels of 37.3 mpg for new cars and 27.5 mpg for light trucks, the projected greenhouse gas emissions would comply with a national version of the California GHG emissions standafuel economy levels of 37.3 mpg for new cars and 27.5 mpg for light trucks, the projected greenhouse gas emissions would comply with a national version of the California GHG emissions staeconomy levels of 37.3 mpg for new cars and 27.5 mpg for light trucks, the projected greenhouse gas emissions would comply with a national version of the California GHG emissions standards.

The blame goes mostly to national economy and industry ministers, who constantly block any attempts to introduce mandatory targets for renewable energies, energy efficiency rules or fuel consumption standards for cars.»