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"GREEN" BILLS * USA - California exhaust bill fought
A bill to allow California and 13 other states to impose a 30-percent reduction in tailpipe emissions won't become law this year...
Washington,DC,USA -The Detroit News, by David Shepardson -May 21, 2008: -- ... predicted the head of the trade group representing Detroit's Big Three automakers, Toyota Motor Corp. and others... Dave McCurdy, president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers told reporters that a bill to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's Dec. 19 decision to deny California a waiver under the Clean Air Act has no chance of passing... This bill will not become law period... California wants to require passenger cars to average 43.7 mpg and light trucks 26.6 mpg by 2016, a much tougher standard than what Congress mandated last December, when it passed the first overhaul of the nation's passenger car efficiency requirements since 1975... Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, will bring up her bill, which is co-sponsored by 18 senators including the two Democratic presidential candidates, tomorrow... McCurdy, a former Democratic U.S. House member from Oklahoma, predicted the waiver bill would make it through committee, though he expected several members would raise serious questions about the bill and it would be a close vote... Boxer declined to assess the waiver bill's prospects this year saying she would take things "one step at a time."... She acknowledged President Bush "will not grant this waiver" but the three presidential candidates have said they will "so draw your own conclusions."...
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