Fuel Economy
Is Obama Out of Bounds on Climate Change?
BNET.com
May 22, 2009
By Jim Motavalli
According to Becker, “The EPA and the Department of Transportation are working up standards to achieve the 35.5-mpg goal. It’s a goal. And the President also instructed the EPA to determine whether carbon dioxide [CO2, the major global warming gas] is a threat to health and welfare. That opened the door to allow regulation, and empowers the agency to reduce carbon emissions.”
Posture, Clout of Slimmer GM, Automakers: Outlook on Capitol Hill Cloudy, but Change Likely
The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media
By Julie Halpert
July 21, 2009
“The auto industry already had lost a lot of its clout before they drove themselves into bankruptcy,” Becker says. He sees automakers desperately lobbying now to get more money and more bailouts, and adds “It’s hard for the auto companies to wield the bludgeon against the environment with one hand while they’re shaking a tin cup in the other.”
Critics Blast ‘Cash for Clunkers’ $2 Billion Lifeline
Washington Independent
By Mike Lillis
July 31, 2009
EPA Tailpipe Reg.’s “German Provision” Angers Environmentalists, David Cole
The Truth About Cars (www.thetruthaboutcars.com)
By Robert Farago
July 28, 2009
Daniel Becker, director of the Washington-based Safe Climate Campaign, which advocates tougher regulation of automotive fuel economy and greenhouse-gas emissions, said BMW and Mercedes “should be required to meet the same standards as General Motors and Ford.”
Fuel Rules to Spare BMW, Daimler
The Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Power
July 28, 2009
Daniel Becker, director of the Washington-based Safe Climate Campaign, which advocates tougher regulation of automotive fuel economy and greenhouse-gas emissions, said BMW and Mercedes "should be required to meet the same standards as General Motors and Ford."
Program offers cash for clunkers
July 22, 2009
"What began as a reasonable idea to get clunkers off the road, and try to move some more efficient vehicles in their stead, has been hijacked by the auto industry and their friends in congress," says Dan Becker of the Safe Climate Campaign.
Poor economic mileage from auto clunkers plan
July 14, 2009
"The reality is the economists are right that it doesn’t make economic sense; the environmentalists are right that it doesn’t make environmental sense," said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign. "The conclusion has to be that it really doesn’t make any sense."
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Driven to improve
By David Czamanske
July 9, 2009
Just Do It
July 1, 2009
By Thomas L. Friedman
Unfortunately the Energy-Climate bill has more holes than cheese.
June 26, 2009
…The bill’s renewable energy provisions fall far short of technology can provide. The requirement for the cleaner coal plants wouldn’t take effect until 2025-and that technology doesn’t exist. And the bill revokes EPA’s authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants. That’s a step backwards. …