Topic: House panel votes to bar EPA tailpipe emission regulations

[Pandora]

The bill sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., would overturn a 2007 Supreme Court decision that said the EPA has the legal right to regulate tailpipe emissions as a danger to public health under the Clean Air Act.

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The Republican bill would bar EPA from taking part in setting future standards — and would bar California from limiting tailpipe emissions.

Instead, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would have sole authority to set Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards.

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Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., praised General Motors Co. and its extended-range Chevrolet Volt, saying Congress should help businesses "innovate."

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110310/AUTO01/103100441/House-panel-votes-to-bar-EPA-tailpipe-emission-regulations#ixzz1GHwvzRl1

Help.  To "innovate".   

The piece's author is of the opinion that "but the measure's future is uncertain."

And the NHTSA needs to go along with the other POS alphabet agencies.

[Libertas]

Please end all the madness!

No doubt Dingy Harry will, ahh, do nothing...

 

 

But like everything that is needed, bury all these measures into every fricken piece of legislation until they pass!

[Sectionhand]

EPA and NHTSA are equal opportunity offenders and completely out of control . We need to start with A and work our way to Z with a meat ax and eliminate 90 % of the agencies in the federal government . I'll give our gentle posters one guess as to how THAT will effect the budget defficit .

[Libertas]

Sadly, until we gain control of the Senate and the White House, we will be in a poor position to effect any positive action!

And I cannot adequately express in words how badly I want to swing that meat ax!