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- Will the Supreme Court Review EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Regulations? Sat, 5 Jan 13, 7:47amPowerful dissenting opinions can sometimes persuade a higher court to review a lower court’s ruling. Massachusetts v. EPA (2007), the Supreme Court decision empowering the EPA to act as a super legislature and ‘enact’...
- Issa Challenges Legality of California Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards Thu, 22 Dec 11, 3:22amI keep coming back to this topic because fuel economy zealots are trashing our constitutional system of separated powers and democratic accountability...
- Issa: 54.5 MPG Fuel Economy Standard Negotiated Outside Scope of Law Tue, 16 Aug 11, 7:44amIn a sharply worded letter (August 11, 2011) to White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrel Issa (R-Calif.) contends that “the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy...
- House Committee Opens New Front in Fuel Economy Battle Thu, 14 Jul 11, 4:00amYesterday, the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2012 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill that would block EPA from using any funds to: Develop greenhouse...
- EPA Greenhouse Gas/NHTSA Fuel Economy Standards: ‘Harmonized and Consistent’? Sat, 25 Jun 11, 1:27amThis post updates my June 14 post on the mantra intoned by EPA, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that EPA/CARB’s greenhouse gas (GHG) motor vehicle...
- California Air Board Boasts Its GHG Standards Save More Fuel than DOT’s Fuel Economy Standards — But Denies GHG Standards Are Fuel Economy Standards. Huh? Wed, 15 Jun 11, 4:37amThe California Air Resources Board (CARB) boasts that its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards save more fuel than the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)...
- What Should Drive Fuel Efficiency? Wed, 1 Jun 11, 6:31amWhat should drive fuel efficiency? (a) Government (b) Markets (c) Pass the sweet and sour shrimp. If you answered (a), then please watch my favorite South Park episode, “Smug Alert.” If you answered (c), then...
- EPA’s GHG Power Grab: Baucus’s Revenge, Democracy’s Peril Tue, 22 Mar 11, 2:05amToday at Pajamas Media.Com, I discuss the latest stratagem of the greenhouse lobby to protect EPA’s purloined power to dictate national climate and energy policy: Sen. Max Baucus’s (D-Mont.) amendment to the...