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NEW ADMINISTRATION * USA
* Obama administration to inherit EOBR controversy
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Charlie Morasch -January 20, 2009: -- As DC gets a makeover, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has been watching what some call “midnight regulations,” ones that Bush administration could make happen in the weeks leading up to today, the first day of the new Obama administration... Federal agencies send their proposed regulations to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget for final review... Among the significant regulatory actions related to trucking that did not get the green light during the final week was a mandate for electronic on-board recorders in commercial trucks. It’s a mandate that is unpopular with professional truck drivers and one that has long been opposed by OOIDA... The EOBR rule was sent to the OMB in November 2008, and it is now apparent that it has failed to make it to the table during the last working days of the Bush administration... OOIDA will be watching the OMB and how the EOBR review will fare under the new administration...
* EPA Pick Is ‘Open’ to Carbon Tax. Jackson says She Prefers Cap and Trade
Washington,DC,USA -Transport topics, by Eric Miller -19 Jan 2009: -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Lisa Jackson said she was “open to discussion” of a carbon tax to limit greenhouse gas emissions and would immediately begin a review of the Bush administration’s denial of California’s request to regulate those emissions from automobiles... Steven Chu, Obama’s energy secretary-designate, also said he supported Obama’s preference for a cap-and-trade program over a carbon tax... Clayton Boyce, spokesman for American Trucking Associations, said the federation was opposed to cap-and-trade for mobile sources such as heavy trucks and cars...
Labels: carbon taxes, EOBR rules
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