Fuel efficiency

February 1, 2008. -- A group of states is seeking to adopt stricter vehicle-emission standards than EPA for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by new motor vehicles.

Iowa and other states are going to court to challenge a ruling by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that rejected the right of states to set tougher emission standards than the EPA’s standards for new vehicles, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller said Friday.    » read more »

Global Warming Takes Center Stage in Sierra Club Virtual Town Hall, Reagan Library Debate

January 31 , 2008 -- Washington, D.C.- The Sierra Club has long supported California's Clean Car bill through grassroots and legal action. Now, the Presidential candidates of both parties have all taken a further step away from the Bush administration by opposing the unlawful decision to deny California the Clean Air Act waiver that will allow it and at least 17 other states to proceed with landmark global warming emissions standards for vehicles.    » read more »

January 25, 2008 -- Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, introduced legislation today that would direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant California a waiver under the Clean Air Act to cut global warming pollution from motor vehicles.    » read more »

Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA required EPA to study public health threat of greenhouse gas emissions

January 25, 2008 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today called on the EPA to promptly complete work on its Supreme Court-mandated review of the need to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Senator Feinstein chairs the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies, and will be holding a hearing on the EPA budget in the coming weeks.    » read more »

Calls on GAO to immediately open investigation into EPA’s denial of California’s waiver

January 24, 2008 -- Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined with Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) today to introduce a measure to overturn the EPA’s denial of California’s Clean Air Act waiver. The Boxer-Feinstein bill would legislatively grant the State of California (and any other state) the authority to adopt and enforce tailpipe emissions reductions.    » read more »

January 25, 2008 -- OLYMPIA -- Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna this week joined state and local attorneys across the nation in a letter urging the federal Environmental Protection Agency to exercise its authority to protect the environment from greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles.

In October 2003, Washington was one of 12 states, led by Massachusetts, to file suit (Mass. v. EPA) challenging the EPA's refusal to initiate rulemaking under the federal Clean Air Act to limit emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, from motor vehicles.    » read more »

01/24/2008 -- A Senate bill would override an Environmental Protection Agency ruling and let Vermont and other states enforce tougher vehicle emission rules to curb global warming. Cosponsored by Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy, the bill by Senator Barbara Boxer was offered on the same day EPA Administrator Steven Johnson was summoned before a Senate panel she chairs to explain why he shunned the advice of EPA experts and blocked California, Vermont and other states from enforcing their own emission standards.    » read more »

WASHINGTON, January 24 – A bill to be introduced in the Senate today would override an Environmental Protection Agency ruling and let Vermont and other states enforce tougher vehicle emission rules to curb global warming.    » read more »

January 24, 2008 -- WASHINGTON – Washington Governor Chris Gregoire today joined 13 other governors in urging Congress to hold the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accountable to the federal Clean Air Act.

Gregoire said their aim is to force the EPA to reconsider its decision to deny California a waiver to impose tougher clean air standards than federal law requires. Nineteen other states, including Washington, want to set the same standards.    » read more »

Says EPA Waiver Denial Is ‘Legally and Factually Unsound’

January 24, 2008 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – Vermont Governor Jim Douglas today urged Congress to hold the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accountable to the Clean Air Act.

Testifying before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Douglas said Vermont is a leader among the 12 states that have adopted California’s tough tailpipe emissions standards and in 2005 was the first state to sign on to California’s amendments.    » read more »

Also submits comments opposing issuance of air quality permit to proposed SC power plant

Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch today announced that Rhode Island has joined with Massachusetts, 15 additional states, the Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, and the City Solicitor for Baltimore in urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to comply with an April 2, 2007, ruling by the United States Supreme Court that established EPA’s responsibility to regulate greenhouse gases under the federal Clean Air Act.    » read more »

Expressing Dissatisfaction over Refusal of Clean Car Waiver

January 24, 2008 -- (Santa Fe, NM) New Mexico Governor Richardson and the governors of 13 other states today sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator expressing disappointment in the administrator’s dismissal of a waiver that would allow states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars.    » read more »

January 24, 2008 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. - Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox, in testimony before the U. S. Senate Committee on the Environment & Public Works, today called for a comprehensive national solution to the global problem of greenhouse gas emissions, rather than a one-state or multi-state solution.

Cox also took issue with efforts to single out the auto industry in connection with greenhouse gas emissions.    » read more »

Washington, D.C. (January 24, 2008) – Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley today testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in Washington D.C., to urge Congress to allow Maryland to implement the Clean Cars Act passed last year to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to protect our environment and the Chesapeake Bay.    » read more »

BALTIMORE, MD (January 23, 2008) - Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler today announced that Maryland, along with Attorneys General from 17 other state and local governments sent a letter to Stephen L. Johnson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the agency’s lack of progress in responding to last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA.    » read more »