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Engine And Truck Manufacturers Commit To Working With EPA And NHTSA On Second Phase National Program To Improve Fuel Efficiency And Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
2014-02-24 01:59:17| pollutiononline News Articles
The Obama Administration announced recently that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will again be coordinating their efforts to implement a uniform, second phase national program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve fuel efficiency from medium and heavy-duty trucks and buses
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US Supreme Court to weigh emissions rule
2014-02-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The US Supreme Court will weigh efforts Monday by President Barack Obama's administration to regulate greenhouse gases, which industry groups and Republican-led states are labeling gross overreach. Experts say even if the court sides with businesses, it would barely dent the administration's efforts to tackle global warming. But businesses worry they could face huge additional costs if the Environmental Protection Agency wins, as it could then order industrial sites to be designed and operated...
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Trucking industry asks Obama to 'proceed cautiously' on new fuel, emissions standards
2014-02-18 19:38:15| Trucking - Topix.net
President Obama on Tuesday used executive action to order a new round of fuel-efficiency and greenhouse-gas standards for U.S. automobiles, driving climate control to the front of his second-term agenda and sparking concern from the trucking industry.
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Fracking boom spews toxic air emissions on Texas residents
2014-02-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When Lynn Buehring leaves her doctor's office in San Antonio she makes sure her inhaler is on the seat beside her, then steers her red GMC pickup truck southeast on U.S. 181, toward her home on the South Texas prairie. About 40 miles down the road, between Poth and Falls City, drilling rigs, crude oil storage tanks and flares trailing black smoke appear amid the mesquite, live oak and pecan trees. Depending on the speed and direction of the wind, a yellow-brown haze might stretch across the horizon,...
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Texas Officials Turn Blind Eye To Fracking Industry's Toxic Air Emissions
2014-02-18 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: In January 2011, with air quality worsening in Texas' booming oil and gas fields, state environmental regulators adopted rules to reduce emissions. The industry rebelled. So did the state legislature. A few months later, lawmakers passed SB1134, effectively preventing the new regulations from being applied in the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas, one of the nation's biggest oil and gas booms. Since then, more than 2,400 air emissions permits have been issued in the Eagle Ford without additional...
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