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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Loan ranger House approves $25 billion in direct loans for auto industry	Kate Sheppard	25 Sep 2008	Gristmill
The House of Representatives yesterday approved $25 billion in direct loans to help the auto industry comply with stricter gas mileage standards. The loans will assist automakers in meeting fuel-efficiency standards set in last year's energy bill that push fleet standards up to at least 35 miles per gallon by 2020. The funds can be used to retool older plants and help companies create advanced batteries and new hybrid technologies. Auto suppliers will also be eli ...
Topics: cars, Congress, fuel efficiency, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Fuel me once Select Committee hears testimony on Bush administration's proposals for fuel economy standards	Kate Sheppard	26 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Amid a flurry of votes on energy issues in the House today, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing on the role of automobile fuel economy as gas prices continue to increase. 'Because 70 percent of oil goes into transportation, any solutions to the oil crisis must focus on the transportation sector,' said Select Committee Chair Ed Markey (D-Mass.). Tyler Duvall, the assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Transp ...
Topics: Congress, Department of Transportation, fuel efficiency, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Return to sender White House refuses to open email about regulating greenhouse gases	Kate Sheppard	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The White House has refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency's conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, and has told EPA officials that the email they sent containing the document of their findings would not be opened, reports The New York Times. Apparently the email in question has been hanging in limbo since December 2007, according to EPA officials. The document details the EPA's proposed response to the Supreme Cour ...
Topics: Ed Markey, fuel efficiency, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

House rules Select Committee acquires documents related to EPA's proposals for rulemaking on auto emissions	Kate Sheppard	24 Jun 2008	Gristmill
We reported a few weeks ago that the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming had reached a deal with the White House to secure documents from the Environmental Protection Agency on its work in response to the Supreme Court's decision in the case Massachusetts v. EPA. We also reported that The Wall Street Journal had gotten ahold of an advance draft of the EPA's regulatory proposals for automobile fuel efficiency resulting from the Massachuse ...
Topics: Congress, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Battery powered McCain calls for $300 million prize for the designer of a better electric-car battery	Kate Sheppard	23 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Republican presidential contender John McCain gave a speech in Fresno, Calif., today calling for a $300 million prize, paid by the government, to be awarded to the person who can design a better electric car battery. 'This is one dollar for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. -- a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency -- and should deliver a power source at 30 percent of the current costs,' said McCain. The Republican candid ...
Topics: electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, hybrids, John McCain, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Tough draft Draft copy of EPA rulemaking on fuel efficiency suggests higher standards are possible	Kate Sheppard	19 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal teased that they'd gotten ahold of an advance draft of the EPA's regulatory proposals for automobile fuel efficiency. According to the WSJ, EPA staffers found that cars and trucks could be even more fuel-efficient by 2020 than the 35 miles per gallon required by the latest update to CAFE standards. The draft notes that advanced technologies like plug-in hybrid vehicles could help raise fuel efficiency well beyond 35 mile ...
Topics: fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

The Gas Menagerie Obama leads bipartisan effort to raise fuel-economy standards	Amanda Griscom Little	26 Jul 2006	Muckraker
Is the sting of $75-a-barrel oil and the threat of World War III exploding in the Middle East enough to convince Congress to finally boost auto fuel economy? Probably not, but a bipartisan coalition of senators led by Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is launching an admirable new effort anyway -- the Fuel Economy Reform Act. Barack Obama. Photo: Arnold Turner/WireImage. "It is possibly ...
Topics: Barack Obama, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Gauge Match Push to raise fuel-economy standards gaining new support	Amanda Griscom Little	11 May 2006	Muckraker
Cringe as we might over record-high gasoline prices, they could be the best thing to happen to automobile fuel economy since the Arab oil embargo. Nowhere to go but up. The soaring cost of oil in recent weeks has sent Washington lawmakers into an election-year frenzy. Some of their proposals -- like one from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to offer Americans $100 checks to defray ...
Topics: Congress, consumerism, Ed Markey, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, oil, politics (all these topics)

Better Escalade Than Never Bush admin unveils meek new fuel-economy standards for light trucks	Amanda Griscom Little	30 Mar 2006	Muckraker
The Bush administration yesterday raised fuel-economy standards for SUVs, minivans, and many pickup trucks -- the most significant boost to efficiency requirements for the big vehicles in three decades. Exempt no more. Photo: iStockphoto. Of course, as enviros have been quick to point out, that's not saying much. These final CAFE (corporate average fuel economy ...
Topics: fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

What Else Is on the Menu? With a CAFE boost looking out of reach, enviros check out other options	Amanda Griscom Little	01 Dec 2005	Muckraker
Is CAFE kaput? Since 1975, CAFE -- or corporate average fuel economy -- standards have stood as America's defining energy-efficiency strategy. Yet, despite much wailing and gnashing of teeth by activists and a handful of politicians, the standards for passenger cars haven't been raised since 1985 -- they still call for automakers' car fleets to get an average ...
Topics: fuel efficiency, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Sticker Shocking The EPA has been misoverestimating the fuel economy of cars sold in the U.S., says enviro group	Amanda Griscom	02 Apr 2004	Muckraker
A whole lot of exaggerating going on. If you think the fuel economy of U.S. vehicles is dismal, well, you're right. Perhaps more right than you know. Official U.S. EPA statistics ascribe a pathetic average of 20.8 miles per gallon to the 2003 car fleet, about 6 percent lower than 15 years ago. The fleet averaged 22.1 mpg in 1987, before Americans got h ...
Topics: Bluewater Network, energy, fuel efficiency, Muckraker, placemaking, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Is That a Lawmaker in Your Pocket, or ... ? A breakdown of the CAFE standards yeas and nays in the Senate	Amanda Griscom	14 Mar 2002	Muckraker

Topics: energy, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

A Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine	Ben White	15 Jul 1999	Muckraker
They are intrepid: Navigator, Explorer, Expedition, Blazer. They are virile and exotic: Bronco, Cherokee, Laredo, Tahoe. They are your friends: Amigo. They are even, on occasion, honest about themselves: Suburban. SUVs are huge and getting huger by the model year. One need not pore over market statistics (SUVs now represent about 20 percent of the automobile market, compared with 2 percent in 1980) to know that these behemoths are ...
Topics: cars, energy, fuel efficiency, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

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