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Obama Administration Opens Up Oil and Gas Development and Exploration in Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Arctic

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2010

The Obama Administration will expand oil and gas development and exploration on the US Outer Continental Shelf, while protecting fisheries, tourism, and places off US coasts that it says are not appropriate for development. President Obama is withdrawing Bristol Bay from consideration for oil and gas development through 2017.

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US House Members Introduce Bipartisan Disapproval Resolution to Block EPA Regulation of GHG; Mirrors Murkowski Resolution

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Under President Obama’s national fuel policy ( earlier post ), the EPA and the Department of Transportation’s NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), are jointly developing a new harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US.

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EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2009

Shortly after taking office in January, President Barack Obama directed EPA to assess the appropriateness of denying the waiver. EPA also found that the California program meets legal requirements regarding the protectiveness of public health and welfare as well as technological feasibility.

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California Air Resources Board unanimously adopts Advanced Clean Cars Package

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

The current California program constitutes a separate set of rules with minor variations due to separate legal structures but is designed to parallel the proposed federal joint rulemaking the Obama administration announced last summer.

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EPA grants California emissions waiver

Green Cars News

JULY 2, 2009

In granting the waiver, the EPA found that California continues to have a need for its motor vehicle emissions programme, including the greenhouse gas standards and also found that the programme meets legal requirements regarding the protectiveness of public health and welfare.

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Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 19, 2009

They satisfied their greed at the expense of our environment and our health and the Creative Greenius says they are finally getting what they deserve - except for our government bailouts - and next week when President Obama takes office our California Emission rules are going to smack them down even harder, just as they should. Guess what?

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Consumer Reports calls on automakers to drop support for rollback of federal gas mileage standards

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2020

Consumer Reports sent letters and a consumer petition to the leaders of General Motors, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, and Mitsubishi, calling on the companies to drop their legal attack against America’s Clean Air Act, and instead support Clean Car standards that help drivers save money on fuel and reduce air pollution.

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Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If accompanied by aggressive efforts to get drivers out of their cars, compact growth programs could reduce auto-based 2030 CO 2 emissions by as much as 25% over and above any emissions reductions attributable to higher fuel economy standards. The CPP is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Environmental impact.

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Gas War: Trump Admin Prepares For Second Attempt At Fuel Rollbacks, EV Subsidy Cuts

The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

We covered Trumps attempt to rollback fuel economy standards during his first term extensively in the past. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy certainly seems to believe it will and has ordered a revamp of Americas fuel economy rules that lines up with what the Trump administration attempted to accomplish years earlier.

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Gas War: Appeals Court Upholds EPA Approval of California Emissions Rules

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 9, 2024

Originally instituted by the Obama administration in 2013, the waiver was ended by the Trump administration in 2019 on the grounds that it effectively allowed California to move the nation toward more stringent fuel economy standards and mandatory electrification.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

Federal emissions and fuel economy regulations have been instrumental in encouraging (or coercing) automakers to produce EVs, and to make their legacy vehicles cleaner. Under President Obama, the EPA set the first federal greenhouse gas standard for cars. What about the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards?

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Battery advances will strengthen Biden’s EPA

Electric Auto Association

MARCH 27, 2021

EPA legal prospects looking up The EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles is already on a solid legal footing. All of this real world evidence confirming the feasibility of EVs has legal significance that will strengthen the EPA’s hand if it decides to implement federal Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandates.

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California environmental lawyer forecasts the future of state and federal emissions regulations

Charged EVs

MAY 18, 2021

The reinvigoration of the body of interrelated federal and state fuel economy and emissions regulations will have major implications for the auto industry and the environment. Charged : So, you think they’re probably just going to restore the Obama-era targets for now? You better have some steel. That’s huge.

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Former EPA exec Margo Oge explains the new federal emissions rules

Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Charged : I understand that the EPA sets emissions standards, and NHTSA sets fuel economy standards. I think it’s one thing to have a commitment for 2030 and 2035, and it’s another thing to have to meet legal requirements and standards. The courts put them on hold, all these legal challenges. Margo Oge: Right.

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Obama Administration Opens Up Oil and Gas Development and Exploration in Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Arctic

US House Members Introduce Bipartisan Disapproval Resolution to Block EPA Regulation of GHG; Mirrors Murkowski Resolution

EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

California Air Resources Board unanimously adopts Advanced Clean Cars Package

EPA grants California emissions waiver

Comedy CAFE Clowns Crack Me Up

Consumer Reports calls on automakers to drop support for rollback of federal gas mileage standards

Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

Gas War: Trump Admin Prepares For Second Attempt At Fuel Rollbacks, EV Subsidy Cuts

Gas War: Appeals Court Upholds EPA Approval of California Emissions Rules

Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

Battery advances will strengthen Biden’s EPA

California environmental lawyer forecasts the future of state and federal emissions regulations

Former EPA exec Margo Oge explains the new federal emissions rules

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