Fuel Economy

Sept. 10, 2009

By Jim Motavalli

…Dan Becker, director of the Center for Auto Safety’s Safe Climate Campaign, said any such lawsuit is likely to be “a loser.” He added, “It’s not surprising that polluting industries would throw the kitchen sink to try to block the E.P.A. from controlling global warming pollution, but it is unfortunate.”

Aug. 3, 2009

By Jim Snyder

Meanwhile, some environmental groups are urging coastal-state senators to slow down the clunkers push in hopes of improving fuel-efficiency requirements when Congress returns this fall. 

May 13, 2009

By Louis Jacobson

Environmental critics had also cited concerns that MADD has taken money from carmakers that NHTSA regulates.

The Wall Street Journal

May 12, 2009

By Joseph B. White

Environmentalists aren’t happy with the way that the debate is tilting toward selling more trucks. "Clunkers for clunkers" is how Dan Becker of the Safe Climate Campaign describes the latest plans.

March 29, 2009

By John Hughes

Cars must average 30.2 mpg under the rule, up from 27.5 required under current law, which runs out after 2010. Light trucks will average 24.1, up from 23.5 mpg for 2010 models. The December 2007 energy law called for vehicles to meet a 35 mpg standard by 2020 models, a 40% increase from the average in 2008.

March 26, 2009

The Obama administration has said it only had two months to produce the 2011 rules, which are required by April 1 to give car companies enough time to plan their vehicle lineup.

Sept. 19, 2008

By Ken Thomas

Environmental groups said the report reflected a lack of good options among many vehicle categories. In the larger truck segments, for example, there was little difference in fuel efficiency among the best performers and the mediocre ones.

 Carbonpositive.net

Nov. 24, 2008

Democrats, who control the numbers in Congress, have voted to install Henry Waxman as chairman of the powerful House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee, a man who promises a more proactive focus on climate, clean energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions than his predecessor, John Dingell….“The champion of the environment has replaced the champion of the automotive industry,” Daniel Becker, a lawyer with the Safe Climate Campaign, told Bloomberg.

By Mike Lillis

May 20, 2009

The compromise also waters down the so-called cash-for-clunkers program…Daniel Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, said the program does much more to help struggling automakers sell large, unpopular models than it does to reduce greenhouse emissions.

All Things Considered

By Christopher Joyce

Aug. 3, 2009

Mr. DAN BECKER (Safe Climate Campaign): The problem is the auto industry hijacked this law, so it doesn’t get the better ones on the road. All it does is replace old clunkers with new clunkers.

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