Reaction to the Obama administration’s first-of-their-kind regulations limiting fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in heavy trucks was almost unanimously positive from trucking, truck and engine manufacturers, environmental groups and others.
August 18, 2011Government, Fuel
Fuel Rule to Spur Tweaks in Cummins’ SCR Engines
Engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. will use incremental improvements to its current selective catalytic reduction engines to meet new federal standards for limiting greenhouse gas emissions between now and 2017, a senior company engineer said.
August 29, 2011Government, Fuel
Fuel Economy Rules Praised by Most Trucking Interests
Government, Fuel
L.A., Long Beach Ports Settle Emissions Lawsuit
Seven terminal operators at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging the terminals were in violation of diesel emission standards, the Los Angeles Times reported.
August 17, 2011Government, Fuel
Obama Sets Truck Fuel-Efficiency Standards
President Obama last week set heavy-truck fuel-economy standards for the first time, unveiling regulations that mandate a 20% cut in fuel use and address the complicated broad universe of vehicle sizes and applications in a plan that both operators and manufacturers applauded.
August 15, 2011Government, Fuel
Obama Announces Heavy-Duty Truck Fuel Economy Standards
President Obama on Tuesday announced the first-ever regulations setting heavy-duty truck fuel efficiency standards, intended to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from heavy trucks by as much as 23%.
August 9, 2011Government, Fuel
House Panel’s EPA Vote Doesn’t Block Truck Rule
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved legislation that would strip the Environmental Protection Agency of some of its authority but would not block a proposal to regulate heavy- and medium-duty truck greenhouse gas emissions.
March 21, 2011Government, Fuel
Calif.’s Global Warming Targets May Cut Light Truck Sales
Automakers may forego as much as $4 billion a year in light truck sales to prevent states led by California from setting their own mileage standards, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
March 1, 2011Government, Fuel
Budget Proposal Would Cut EPA Grants for Emissions Reductions, Other Programs
President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency would eliminate diesel emissions-reduction grants and shrink other agency programs. But EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson last week vowed to forge full-speed ahead with the agency’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction program, including the agency’s proposed truck fuel-efficiency rule.
February 21, 2011Government, Fuel
Obama Signs Diesel Emissions Act Into Law
President Obama signed the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act into law Jan. 4.
January 10, 2011Government, Fuel
New Bill Would Continue Grants for Diesel Emission Reduction
Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) introduced a bill that would reauthorize a voluntary national and state-level grant and loan program to reduce diesel emissions.
November 29, 2010