{"id":5313,"date":"2010-04-01T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T21:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=5313"},"modified":"2018-02-02T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T19:09:25","slug":"new-federal-fuel-standards-follow-cas-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2010\/04\/01\/new-federal-fuel-standards-follow-cas-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"New Federal Fuel Standards Follow CA&#8217;s Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5316 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"87809815\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2010\/04\/cars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2010\/04\/cars.jpg 506w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2010\/04\/cars-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2010\/04\/cars-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2010\/04\/cars-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/>California has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/index.php?s=waiver+AB+32\">spent years battling to set its own rules<\/a> on greenhouse gas emissions, and today, the federal Department of Transportation and the EPA <a href=\"http:\/\/yosemite.epa.gov\/opa\/admpress.nsf\/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27\/562b44f2588b871a852576f800544e01!OpenDocument\">announced the first-ever national greenhouse gas emissions standards<\/a>, based on California&#8217;s rules.\u00a0 The new federal standards improve the current ones by nearly 10 mpg by the 2016 model year. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/yosemite.epa.gov\/opa\/admpress.nsf\/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27\/562b44f2588b871a852576f800544e01!OpenDocument\">government statement<\/a>, drivers could save up to $3,000 per year due to improved fuel efficiency, and nearly 1.8 billion barrels of oil and a billion tons of CO2 will be conserved over the lives of the vehicles covered by the new rules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=125458204\">NPR has a complete story<\/a> on the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The new federal rules, which mandate that the U.S. car and light-truck fleet reach an average fuel efficiency of between 35.5 mpg by 2016, are modeled after the standards outlined in California&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arb.ca.gov\/cc\/ccms\/ccms.htm\">AB 1493<\/a>, which was signed into law in 2002.\u00a0 The state was not <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/06\/30\/californias-epa-waiver-does-it-still-matter\/\">granted permission<\/a> from the U.S. EPA to implement the law until June 2009, however.<\/p>\n<p>In a written statement Thursday, state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arb.ca.gov\/homepage.htm\">Air Resources Board <\/a>Chairman Mary Nichols said,\u00a0 <!--StartFragment-->&#8220;For eight long years California and the thirteen other states that adopted our tough standards led the way. 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