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US President Barack Obama announced fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emission standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. Heavy-duty engines affected by the final standards are generally those that are installed in commercial medium- and heavy-duty trucks and buses. Click to enlarge.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Transportation (DOT) formally unveiled their joint proposal to set stronger fueleconomy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for Model Year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light trucks. EPA’s proposed GHG standards, which are. mpg US (5.87 mpg US (5.87
Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fueleconomystandards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. New energy efficiency standards. Earlier post.).
The Obama administration reportedly is at work on a new, more stringent fueleconomystandard that will likely supplant California’s efforts to regulate tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions. Detroit Free Press.
Changes in the attributes (clockwise from upper left, weight, power, fueleconomy and torque) of the Honda Accord over time as an example of fleet trends in the US. In contrast, fueleconomy actually increased by 15% during that period. Knittel, 2009. Click to enlarge. Knittel, 2009. Knittel, Christopher R.
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Light-duty vehicle fueleconomystandards, 1978-2025. MY2012-2025 standards are EPA GHG standards in miles per gallon equivalent, incorporating air conditioning improvements. Dashed lines denote that standards for MY2017-2025 reflect percentage increases in Notice of Intent.
Sample label for a plug-in gasoline hybrid-electric vehicle, which features fueleconomy ratings for both electricity and gasoline. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled the next-generation of fueleconomy labels. Click to enlarge.
The Obama Administration released a progress report highlighting its achievements in meeting the “all-of-the-above” energy plan outlined in the Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future released last year. —President Obama. Transportation. That goal has been accomplished, one year ahead of schedule, according to the report.
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Greenhouse gas and fueleconomy levels under the EPA NHTSA joint proposed rulemaking. The proposal builds upon the core principles President Obama announced in May for a harmonized national policy intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for all new cars and trucks sold in the US.(
The US Department of Transportation (DOT), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state of California have announced a single timeframe for proposing fueleconomy and greenhouse gas standards for model year 2017-2025 cars and light-duty trucks. The EPA standard would be equivalent to 35.5 Earlier post.)
Strengthening the fueleconomy of medium- and heavy-duty trucks could create as many as 124,000 jobs in the US by 2030, with all 50 states experiencing net job growth, according to a new report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and CALSTART. per gallon fuel price. per gallon fuel price.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has set the model year 2011 CAFE standards, which it estimates will raise the industry-wide combined light-duty vehicle fueleconomy average to 27.3 Average FuelEconomyStandards Passenger Cars and Light Trucks Model Year 2011. Earlier post.).
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Readers who want to make their voices heard in objection to (or support of) the EPA proposal to freeze fueleconomystandards have until tomorrow to get their comments in. The EPA proposed in early August to undo Obama-era rules requiring cars to reach increasingly stringent fuel-economy targets through 2025.
The new Obama Administration proposal to increase fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks to an average 54.5 As new cars and light trucks are purchased in the future and old ones retired, average fueleconomy will improve, reducing the 2009 forecast of gasoline sales and HTF revenues. Click to enlarge.
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The US auto industry, via the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, is lining up to support a new national, harmonized program to reduce carbon emissions and fuel consumption that President Obama will announce on Tuesday, 19 May. This approach allows for a range of sizes of vehicles to meet consumer needs for passenger and cargo room.
US President Barack Obama today announced 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. The resulting new standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fueleconomystandard of 35.5
The two Federal agencies that set gas mileage and emissions standards for future cars may propose rules that require corporate average fueleconomy to reach 56 miles per gallon by 2025. indicate that the Obama Administration is urging the EPA and NHTSA to push for a 5-percent improvement each year between 2017.
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Today the Obama Administration announced the long-awaited new Corporate Average FuelEconomy (CAFE) standard for cars and light-duty trucks, raising the standard to the equivalent of 54.5 The CAFE standards are regulations. miles/gallon, by 2025.
Department of Energy and the Obama administration have confirmed new Corporate Average FuelEconomy (CAFE) standards for all cars made between 2017 and 2025. After a long, political battle, both on Capitol Hill and in Detroit, the U.S.
The EPA's plans to freeze fueleconomy and emissions standards have been put on hold until at least Labor Day, sources familiar with the plans told Bloomberg earlier this week.
government agencies jointly announced the final fuel-economy rules for model year 2012 through 2016 vehicles, giving automakers a single national set of standards and averting the threat of state-by-state regulation. Starting with 2012, automakers must improve the fleet average fueleconomy of their.
These regulatory standards will be equivalent to applicable US national fueleconomystandards. The Government says that it will work closely with the US towards the continued implementation of common national standards for 2011 and later model year cars and light-duty trucks to reduce greenhouse gases.
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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Since Wheeler became the acting administrator last July, he has released plans to unwind rising emissions and attendant fueleconomystandards enacted under President Obama, and to rescind California's half-century-old authority to set tighter emissions.
Today the Obama Administration announced the long-awaited new Corporate Average FuelEconomy (CAFE) standard for cars and light-duty trucks, raising the standard to the equivalent of 54.5 The CAFE standards are regulations. miles/gallon, by 2025.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to maintain existing Corporate Average FuelEconomy (CAFE) standards through 2025. Enacted by the Obama Administration in 2012, the standards call for automakers to achieve a fleet average of 54.5 mpg (equivalent to about 38 mpg in the real world) by that year.
After wiping out plans to continue boosting fueleconomystandards earlier this month, the EPA on Tuesday proposed rolling back emissions standards on electric power plants.
First, according to a Bloomberg report, is Pruitt's decision to freeze fueleconomystandards and eliminate increases that had been approved during the Obama Administration. Second, the Clean.
The replacement of separate NMOG and oxides of nitrogen (NO x ) standards. with combined NMOG plus NO x standards. standard will decline from 0.100 for passenger cars and light-duty trucks. The regulation also reduces the PM standard to 0.001 gram per mile, phasing in to 100% compliance by 2028 for all light-duty vehicles.
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.
The US Environmental Agency (EPA) has granted California’s waiver request enabling the state to enforce its greenhouse gas emissions standards (Pavley I) for new motor vehicles, beginning with the current model year. The resulting new national standards will cover model years 2012-2016, and will require an average fueleconomystandard of 35.5
Four main results stood out, according to the authors: All the policy scenarios modeled fail to meet the Obama administration’s goal of reducing total US GHG emissions 14% below 2005 levels by 2020. Adoption of all of the preceding policies. million barrels per day, relative to 2008 levels.
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In response to automaker lobbying, the EPA plans to start the process of rolling back emission standards passed under the Obama Administration. Automakers claimed the associated fuel-economy rules were unrealistic given that consumers are flocking to crossover utilities and pickup trucks as gas prices remain low.
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