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[Classical Values] Classical Values :: Obama Trying To Sink Auto Industry: Obama's presidential memorandum will order the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider the Bush administration's past rejection of the California application. While it stops short of flatly ordering the Bush decision reversed, the agency's regulators are now widely expected to do so after completing a formal review process.

[Corvette Action Center] Is Obama Trying To Kill The US Auto Industry? - Corvette Action Center: California's proposed restrictions would force automakers to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent in new cars and light trucks by 2016. U.S. automakers have opposed the waiver, claiming it would create two different emission standards and therefore complicate methods of manufacturing vehicles with different environmental standards.

[green-blog.com] Obama pushes Automakers to produce more Fuel-Efficient cars ...: For California to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it needs a waiver from the EPA, which the Bush administration refused to grant it in December of 2007, even though the state has received many waivers over the years to regulate pollutants. The news that the Obama administration ordered the EPA to reconsider was warmly received in both Sacramento and Washington.

[Consumer Reports Cars Blog] Is California a fuel-economy bully?: Consumer Reports Cars Blog: What the data show: California’s energy use per capita is the fourth lowest of all the states. And, among the 19 most populous states -- those with more than five million people -- California ranks second, trailing only New York."

[US News] Fuel Economy Ruling Puts Bush Policy in Bad Light - Beyond the ...: Nineteen states—including populous New York and Florida—have promised to follow the tough California standard, which would raise fuel economy for both cars and SUVs much faster than Congress has envisioned, once California gets the approval it needs from the Bush administration.

[THE ENVIRONMENTALIST] THE ENVIRONMENTALIST: How to Plant a Christmas Tree: So far, six million trees have been planted by 1 million people in three years, including 850,000 in a single day, a Guinness Book world record. The people who plant the trees are volunteers who each pledge to care for a single sapling for two years.

[Center for American Progress] Blocking State Leadership on Global Warming: Johnson's approach flies in the face of EPA's long-standing policy of examining not whether specific pollutants pose a threat to California residents but instead whether the California motor vehicle program as a whole is needed to meet "compelling and extraordinary conditions."5 Since EPA has repeatedly found that California meets that general test, Johnson should have simply granted the waiver and not conducted an analysis of the implications of CO2 emissions for California. But even applying Johnson's flawed test, his conclusions simply don't stand up to scrutiny.

[Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Obama Power-Drunk ...: The second memorandum will order the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider California’s request for a waiver from the Clean Air Act — a move that would allow California, the nation’s most populous state, to set tougher tailpipe emission standards than apply nationally.

[Fueling Station] California sues EPA over car emissions: As expected, California filed suit Thursday against the EPA, "demanding a quickfederal decision that would allow the nation's most populousstate to limit greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles," according to a report from Reuters.

[Lifestyle on THE ENVIRONMENTALIST] Lifestyle on THE ENVIRONMENTALIST: How to Plant a Christmas Tree: So far, six million trees have been planted by 1 million people in three years, including 850,000 in a single day, a Guinness Book world record. The people who plant the trees are volunteers who each pledge to care for a single sapling for two years.

[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: Now fuel prices are causing rumblings as well. On Friday, fuel tanker drivers in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, went on strike over rising prices of diesel fuel and poor road conditions, a move that could cripple the economy.” .

[NPR Blogs: The NPR News Blog] NPR: Ask the Candidates: Energy, Climate Change and the Environment: Which of you will pledge on 1-20-09 to offer a $1,000,000 tax free reward to the first five producble 100 MPG gasoline engines with another $1,000,000 for the first five designs that allow those engines to be retrofitted into existing automobiles. Then offer a one time $100,000 for every worker in the first factory that starts producing the retrofit engine at a four sigma level of quality so that the installed cost to the automobile owner is $2000.

[Autoblog] GM pushing E85 in California - Autoblog: If a reporter in The New Zealand Herald and a reporter at Business Week understand that there are real problems with biofuels in general and corn ethanol in particular, why has the California Press only written a few articles about AB118, and its stealth movement through the California Assembly and through two California Senate Committees? The Sierra Club, The Coalition for Clean Air, and The American Lung Association, are all aligned with Vinod Khosla and the oil companies in favor of AB118.

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