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Dingell and Waxman will fight for leadership position in Committee on Energy and Commerce

Following Barack Obama's - and the Democrats' - huge win on Tuesday, Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) released a statement (PDF) saying he was seeking the chairmanship of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. That position is currently held by the Detroit automakers' great friend John Dingell (D-MI). While Dingell carries water for the Big 2.2 with some regularity, Waxman has not been shy in the past to criticize parts of the federal government when they seemed to be working for the automakers instead of citizens and spoke out against the ... Read more →

Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency poll: nearly 90% support high fuel economy standards Jeremy Korzeniewski

The Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency (PCFE), a "public education campaign," has released details of a bipartisan poll which was conducted by The Mellman Group (D) and Public Opinion Strategies (R). ...

Dingell will propose carbon tax, predicts Americans will not go for it Sam Abuelsamid

Amid all the squabbling about how high to raise fuel economy standards and in what time frame, no one has been willing to step up to the plate and do the one thing that would make the standards a moot ...

Not just an issue for the Big 3- Imports and CAFE Shane Addie

If you think that the Detroit 3 are the only ones worried about the new CAFE standards, think again. As it turns out, Honda and Toyota execs are supporting a fuel economy bill, but not all parts of ...

Beware the elusive Dingellsaurus! Jeremy Korzeniewski

I'll tell ya, these political lobby groups must have some sense of humor to come up with stuff like this latest commercial that is apparently airing on the radio. Not only that, they also must be ...

Rep. John Dingell drops his fuel economy proposal 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Congressmen John Dingell (D-MI) and Rick Boucher (D-VA) said that they will not be pursuing the energy legislation that they have proposed for at least the next two weeks. The Dingell-Boucher bill had fuel economy standards that were not as stringent as those proposed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ...

Dingell to Obama: Mind your own business! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

John Dingell has been in the House of Representatives for fifty-two years, seven years longer than Barak Obama has been alive. When the prospective Democratic presidential nominee came to Detroit recently and berated the domestic carmakers for not building more efficient cars, Dingell was not ...

Just how much impact will new House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming really have? Grist talks to the chairman 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

With auto industry stalwart John Dingell in charge of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Democrats wanted to ensure that lawmakers and the rest of the country got an earful of global warming issues. So House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged the House to create a new committee to address energy ...

Congress hopes to come to a compromise on Bush's fuel economy goals 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Perhaps President Bush knew what was coming when he decided to check out the Phoenix SUT and a plug-in Toyota Prius last week. According to the the Detroit News, Congress is meeting to discuss Bush's proposed fuel economy changes. To recap, the changes basically call for "reducing gasoline ...


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