Boxer on EPA decision to grant waiver
Sen.
Barbara Boxer, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works, last week made the following statement regarding the
Obama Administration's announcement on the California waiver to tighten
auto emission standards:
"The granting of this waiver will unleash innovative technologies that will create millions of clean energy jobs as we move toward new cleaner and more efficient vehicles," Boxer said.
"It should be comforting to the American people to know that the Environmental Protection Agency is now putting science and the law back into the driver's seat rather than politics and special interests."
The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step toward tougher reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks on Tuesday by giving California the green light to impose new requirements that could become the national model for combatting tailpipe pollution linked to global warming.
The EPA granted California's long-standing request -- denied by the Bush administration -- for a waiver to allow it to pursue more stringent air pollution rules than required by the federal government. It cleared the way to implement immediately a 2002 state pollution law requiring new cars to increase their fuel economy 40 percent by 2016, according to the Associated Press.
"I commend the Obama Administration for doing what is right for the people of California, the environment and the many states in the union that intend to follow California's lead in cleaning up tailpipe emissions," Boxer said.
"The granting of this waiver will unleash innovative technologies that will create millions of clean energy jobs as we move toward new cleaner and more efficient vehicles," Boxer said.
"It should be comforting to the American people to know that the Environmental Protection Agency is now putting science and the law back into the driver's seat rather than politics and special interests."
The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step toward tougher reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks on Tuesday by giving California the green light to impose new requirements that could become the national model for combatting tailpipe pollution linked to global warming.
The EPA granted California's long-standing request -- denied by the Bush administration -- for a waiver to allow it to pursue more stringent air pollution rules than required by the federal government. It cleared the way to implement immediately a 2002 state pollution law requiring new cars to increase their fuel economy 40 percent by 2016, according to the Associated Press.
"I commend the Obama Administration for doing what is right for the people of California, the environment and the many states in the union that intend to follow California's lead in cleaning up tailpipe emissions," Boxer said.
Looks like Boxer is trying to get mileage out of this decision that had absolutely nothing to do with her.
ho hum.
Vito