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Zip Weasel Zippers 2/18/2014 President Obama will again bypass Congress and take executive actions to promote his agenda on Tuesday – this time by ordering the federal government to develop the next round of greenhouse gas standards for medium- and heavy-weight trucks by March 2016. Back in Washington from a three-day trip to California, Obama […] February 18th, 2014 | Tags: Executive order, fuel efficiency, greenhouse gases, Safeway, trucks, WalMart | Category: Barack Obama, Cap and Trade, Department of Transportation, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, federal regulations | Comments are closed
Andrew Restuccia The Hill 8/15/2011 The country’s automakers should ditch their focus on SUVs and trucks in favor of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, President Obama said Monday. “You can’t just make money on SUVs and trucks,” Obama said during a town hall forum in Cannon Falls, Minn. “There is a place for SUVs and trucks, […] August 16th, 2011 | Tags: automakers, bailouts, fuel efficiency, rural, SUVs, trucks | Category: Barack Obama, Economy, federal regulations | Comments are closed
Ben Geman The Hill 8/8/2011 Al Gore is using this hot summer to turn up the heat on climate skeptics. The former vice president angrily denounced “bulls–t” from climate skeptics whom he accused of emulating the disinformation tactics once used by the tobacco industry. Real Aspen reported on Gore’s comments at an Aspen Institute forum […] August 9th, 2011 | Tags: 'Climategate', Al Gore, Alberta, Aspen Institute, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, oil prices, oil sands, Ron Bloom, trucks | Category: Alaska, Barack Obama, Canada, Energy, Environment, Science/Research/Technology | Comments are closed
EPA now paying to equip Mexican trucks with anti-pollution equipment so they can cross the border with even more impunity Doug Ross DirectorBlue 4/11/2011 …the U.S. government is paying to upgrade outdated Mexican trucks that hemorrhage illegal amounts of exhaust on their trips north to deliver merchandise… The Mexican trucks enter the U.S. under a […] April 13th, 2011 | Tags: Carbon emissions, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), trucks | Category: Barack Obama, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal spending, Mexico, Progressives, Taxes | Comments are closed
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