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California may drop CO2 waiver request if national standard implemented

California Air Resource Board chairwoman Mary Nichols told an EPA hearing last week that the state would consider withdrawing its request for a waiver allowing it to regulate carbon dioxide. Before that happens though a national standard needs to be put in place. If such a standard were established it would make automakers much happier. Currently, 13 other states have adopted the proposed California mandate. The problem is that the California rule establishes average CO2 emissions requirements for an automaker's entire fleet, much like CAFE ... Read more →

EPA Administrator declares that CO2 CAN'T be considered for power plants! Sam Abuelsamid

With just weeks to go before the Bush administration cedes power, executive orders and regulatory decisions gutting all sorts of federal rules are flying out from Washington. One of the most recent ...

Automakers won't be able to meet Vermont CO2 mandate Sam Abuelsamid

Vermont is one of ten states that has implemented carbon dioxide emissions restrictions that start to take effect in 2009 and increase until 2016, eventually resulting in a thirty percent reduction. ...

California may drop CO2 waiver request if national standard implemented 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

California Air Resource Board chairwoman Mary Nichols told an EPA hearing last week that the state would consider withdrawing its request for a waiver allowing it to regulate carbon dioxide. Before that happens though a national standard needs to be put in place. If such a standard were established ...

EPA Administrator declares that CO2 CAN'T be considered for power plants! 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

With just weeks to go before the Bush administration cedes power, executive orders and regulatory decisions gutting all sorts of federal rules are flying out from Washington. One of the most recent has come from the office of EPA administrator Stephen Johnson. Johnson has decreed that the agency ...

Automakers won't be able to meet Vermont CO2 mandate 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Vermont is one of ten states that has implemented carbon dioxide emissions restrictions that start to take effect in 2009 and increase until 2016, eventually resulting in a thirty percent reduction. As expected, the industry is suing Vermont (related story) to try and stop the new law. During ...


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