Sentences with phrase «vehicle fuel efficiency standards»

That kind of money buys a lot of misinformation, and the organizations spending that cash are aiming to roll back clean energy solutions like vehicle fuel efficiency standards, pollution controls on power plants, and wind and solar innovation.

In response to growing climate change challenges, the EPA Administrator has been the point person on proposals to raise vehicle fuel efficiency standards and tighten emissions on coal - fired power plants.

Because the Environmental Protection Agency says vehicle fuel efficiency standards have to reach a combined 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 for entire corporate fleets.

He outlined several decisions taken during the Beijing talks, including the adoption of stronger vehicle fuel efficiency standards and work on carbon capture, utilization and storage projects.

* While I was a Member of the Climate Change Authority, I put a lot of work into a report the Authority did on vehicle fuel efficiency standards.

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.

* Relatedly, is it better to rely on prices, direct controls such as vehicle fuel efficiency standards, or on some other approach?

The climate policy review backs a new light vehicle fuel efficiency standard to reduce transport emissions, without being definitive, and it declares Australia will meet its international climate commitments.

When asked about four specific regulations, CO2 standards were just as popular (77 percent support) as smog limits, even a hair more popular than vehicle fuel efficiency standards.

Stripped of the jargon, the paper uses an MIT model, with all the bells and whistles, to conclude that vehicle fuel efficiency standards are an arbitrary, blunt instrument that harm consumers far more than is necessary to achieve a given environmental objective.