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casner Rookie Author Appleton Posts:5 Points:308,550 Joined:Dec 2011	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 8:41:34 AM Ignore casner Report Abuse Rejecting calls from automakers and dealers, EPA has granted a request from California to waive the Clean Air Act to implement several new clean-vehicle rules, including the state's greenhouse gas (GHG) limits for vehicles, strict zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) requirements and a stringent particulate matter (PM) standard for 2025 vehicles. The move clears the way for other states to adopt the Golden State's standard. In a Dec. 27 press release, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) says that up to 40 percent of new car sales across the country will be subject to the new regulations, under the waiver's application to section 177 states. Visit Inside EPA Weekly Report for full article

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Rejecting calls from automakers and dealers, EPA has granted a request from California to waive the Clean Air Act to implement several new clean-vehicle rules, including the state's greenhouse gas (GHG) limits for vehicles, strict zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) requirements and a stringent particulate matter (PM) standard for 2025 vehicles.

The move clears the way for other states to adopt the Golden State's standard. In a Dec. 27 press release, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) says that up to 40 percent of new car sales across the country will be subject to the new regulations, under the waiver's application to section 177 states.

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dave27johnson Champion Author Chicago Posts:1,790 Points:410,860 Joined:Feb 2012	Message Posted: Jan 12, 2013 8:39:22 AM Ignore dave27johnson Report Abuse Again, California leads the country with sensible regulations that will help clean up the air.
MAC48 Champion Author Dallas Posts:1,551 Points:768,670 Joined:Dec 2006	Message Posted: Jan 12, 2013 12:36:43 AM Ignore MAC48 Report Abuse If there is any justice in this world, California will break apart along the San Andreus fault line with the severed portion sailing off to China taking 90% of the environmental wing nuts and far left adherents with it. This is the same wishful hoping for a move toward the CARB's vision of the environmental utopia by the rest of the US states that lay behind California's adoption of the more stringent gasoline refining regulations in 1996 that made the refinery outages so much worse than they should have been back in October of 2012. Hopefully, the other 49 states will have the common sense not to follow the California Air Resources Board lead once again.
bar1035 Champion Author Charlotte Posts:9,172 Points:1,300,170 Joined:Aug 2006	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 4:08:18 PM Ignore bar1035 Report Abuse Other states should be smarter than to follow their standard
MadFueler All-Star Author Winston-Salem Posts:936 Points:174,460 Joined:Sep 2012	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 3:02:40 PM Ignore MadFueler Report Abuse So, there is such a thing as "states' rights" as long as you follow the states on the left. Hmmm...
Gmsclecarparts All-Star Author Oklahoma City Posts:707 Points:123,195 Joined:Jun 2007	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 12:37:14 PM Ignore Gmsclecarparts Report Abuse Have no use for ANYTHING from California.
knutzAL Champion Author Alabama Posts:2,248 Points:372,680 Joined:Feb 2012	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 12:12:20 PM Ignore knutzAL Report Abuse If the left coast like it I want nothing to do with it. Noise from the Gay Bay is just that, noise.
mitt4prez Champion Author Tacoma Posts:1,757 Points:1,248,150 Joined:Nov 2007	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 11:10:50 AM Ignore mitt4prez Report Abuse "The move clears the way for other states to adopt the Golden State's standard." Thereby requiring other states to acquire a seppuku knife to commit hari-kari. But bigt61 is q
werich44 Champion Author California Posts:1,867 Points:470,905 Joined:Jun 2011	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 11:00:21 AM Ignore werich44 Report Abuse I don't know which is the biggest joke, obama or the EPA.
Skunk63 Champion Author Phoenix Posts:2,562 Points:560,245 Joined:Oct 2011	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 10:56:49 AM Ignore Skunk63 Report Abuse The EPA is joke.
Buckeyee Champion Author Maine Posts:4,616 Points:901,575 Joined:May 2010	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 10:37:53 AM Ignore Buckeyee Report Abuse The ONE did anything to get re-elected, the doors to the treasury was wide open to buy votes !!
wrunner Champion Author Virginia Posts:4,455 Points:1,138,535 Joined:Dec 2009	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 10:20:28 AM Ignore wrunner Report Abuse That's EPA for you, California.
eschroth442 Champion Author Cleveland Posts:1,089 Points:334,695 Joined:Nov 2011	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 9:54:04 AM Ignore eschroth442 Report Abuse more obama eco-waco's supportewrs in California that wanted payback for the election. Thsi way they get their agenda without actually going thru the process. GET THE EPA OUT OF OUR EVERYDAY LIVES!!!!!!
bigt61 All-Star Author Virginia Posts:655 Points:203,325 Joined:Jul 2008	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 9:33:57 AM Ignore bigt61 Report Abuse Link to articleThis will cost everyone more money. Automakers cannot forsake the California market and will pass the extra cost of complying there on to cars sold throughout the US. What if every state had their own standards? What a regulatory disaster the US has become. Bureaucrats hell bent on passing laws in spite of economic consequences. When will the American voter wake up?
OTISFL Champion Author Pensacola Posts:4,620 Points:867,765 Joined:Apr 2009	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 9:26:03 AM Ignore OTISFL Report Abuse More jobs down the drain.
munkeyciao Veteran Author Quad Cities Posts:266 Points:160,825 Joined:Aug 2012	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 9:17:53 AM Ignore munkeyciao Report Abuse Can't open the article...
BigRedVTX All-Star Author Georgia Posts:882 Points:505,005 Joined:Jun 2011	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 9:14:23 AM Ignore BigRedVTX Report Abuse One of the things politics is good at is not enforcing the existing rules and laws and creating new ones so they can pound their chests and say, "there, look what I did".
humblepie Champion Author Toledo Posts:34,304 Points:2,373,320 Joined:Mar 2006	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 9:12:44 AM Ignore humblepie Report Abuse more jobs lost and loss of business
angel4me Champion Author San Jose Posts:2,814 Points:796,045 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 9:11:00 AM Ignore angel4me Report Abuse politics............this must cost somebody something.........
merlinCO Champion Author Colorado Posts:1,650 Points:343,345 Joined:Mar 2012	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 8:44:52 AM Ignore merlinCO Report Abuse This clears the way for more renewable ethanol.
amoshins Champion Author Trenton Posts:2,205 Points:643,595 Joined:Apr 2011	Message Posted: Jan 11, 2013 8:44:09 AM Ignore amoshins Report Abuse So we adopt more laws to bypass other ones? How about we go through a mass-repeal...