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Chrysler VP talks about fuel efficiency at SAE luncheon

The theme of this year's Society of Automotive Engineers World Congress is "A Climate for Change" and the host company is Chrysler. Chrysler's VP of Regulatory Affairs, Deb Morrissett, spoke today at an SAE luncheon in Detroit in advance of the Congress next month. Morrissett spoke about the new fuel economy regulations and what it would take for Chrysler and other companies to meet the standards. She talked about how efficiency has actually been improving at the rate of 1-1.5 percent annually for the past two decades. However the improvements ... Read more →

Video: President Bush signs the Energy Bill into law Lascelles Linton

President Bush signed the Energy Bill into law Wednesday and you can watch highlights from the speech in the video above. In the speech, President Bush noted two important parts of the energy bill; ...

President Bush explains why EPA denied California's waiver to regulate tailpipe emissions Lascelles Linton

The EPA head denied California a waiver to regulate tailpipe emissions and used the recently passed CAFE standard as an excuse. President Bush took questions today at a press conference and it looks ...

White House: Bush to sign energy bill Wednesday Lascelles Linton

The Congress finally passed the energy bill today, which includes a 35 miles per gallon CAFE standard and the White House says Bush will sign it Wednesday. Even though Bush threatened to veto the ...

BREAKING! 35 MPG it is! Senate passes energy bill, back to the house Sam Abuelsamid

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/35MPG_it_is_Senate_passes_energy_bill'; On their third try the US Senate finally passed the new energy bill this evening. After stripping out all the tax ...

Third times a charm? Second vote on energy bill comes up 1 vote short 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

A second vote today in the US Senate on the new energy bill came up one vote shy of the sixty needed to end debate. Republicans opposed to $21.8 billion in tax increases have filibustered the legislation since it was first passed by the House of Representatives last week. Yesterday Senate ...

Senate Democrats trying to modify energy bill to get it passed 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

With the energy bill that was passed by the House of Representatives last week currently stalled in the US Senate, Democratic leaders are working feverishly to modify the legislation. Last Friday, a procedural vote to end debate and get a vote on the bill fell short of the necessary sixty votes to ...

A day late, House of Representatives passes energy bill 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

After a delay in the vote the House of Representatives passed the new energy on Thursday by a 235-181 margin. The bill passed largely on party lines with fourteen Republicans voting for the bill and seven Democrats against it. The reasons behind the delay will likely doom the bill in the Senate and ...

Fuel economy bill has seventy percent chance of passage 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The new compromise energy bill that was announced over the weekend will almost certainly get passed by the Democrat-controlled Congress starting with the House of Representatives this week. Unfortunately there is still that pesky issue of a possible presidential veto. An anonymous Washington ...

House Speaker Pelosi wants a vote on energy bill before Thanksgiving 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Speaker of the House of the Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is tired of waiting for action on an energy bill including new fuel economy standards. Just as her home state of California filed suit against the EPA, she has called for a vote next week on the bill. Pelosi has met in recent days with ...

More on Click and Clack and CAFE - and Halloween! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Following my post earlier today on Click and Clack's comments on CAFE (can you see I'm caught up in crazy alliteration?) reader Chris Abraham not only posted a comment, but sent in some more information on the letter and what's going on with CAFE tomorrow. First, if you're adverse to PDFs, you can ...

Bush tells Congress how to write an energy bill 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Bush sent a letter telling Congress what changes they can make to the energy bill so he does not veto it. Allan Hubbard wrote the letter that the White House sent to Congressional leaders (Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner) with a list of "deal-makers and deal-breakers." The ...

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