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Regulation * USA - Feds lobby against fuel plan
House panel chairman says secret efforts to oppose Calif. emissions waiver suggest a 'hidden agenda.'Washington,DC,USA -The Detroit News (Detroit,Mich), by David Shepardson -July 05, 2007: -- The U.S. Department of Transportation secretly lobbied dozens of members of Congress in recent weeks, urging them to join the Bush administration in opposing California's request to impose its own strict fuel efficiency regulations, according to a House investigative committee... The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a request from California to establish vehicle tailpipe emissions limits for greenhouse gases. Eleven other states want to adopt California's standards, which would require average fuel economy of 40 miles per gallon by 2016. The standards cannot take effect without a waiver from the EPA... The issue is as critical to the automakers as legislation moving through Congress that calls for raising Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards to 35 mpg by 2020... Joan Claybrook, director of Public Citizen, criticized the campaign. "How is the EPA going to make an independent decision if the Transportation Department is lobbying to oppose it?"...
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