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...Currently fuel-economy standards are set by the Environmental Protection Agency. But President Obama, moving to fulfill one of his campaign promises to the state of California, has asked the EPA to consider revising Bush-era rulings so California can impose its own limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from motor vehicles. On Thursday, the EPA held public hearings on a possible revision, and it will accept written comments until April 6 with a decision, hopefully, soon to follow. But the EPA has already indicated its discomfort with the original decision made several years ago to deny California the right. Environmentalists...
...California's quest to control greenhouse gases goes back a few years. It originally applied for a waiver from EPA's national jurisdiction on December 21, 2005. The request was denied by then EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson on March 6, 2008. At the urging of President Obama, the EPA is now reconsidering that original waiver request...
...that the industry can meet California standards with relatively modest improvements to the traditional internal combustion engines, especially if the automobile fleet continues to absorb more hybrid and electric vehicles. Bob Kruse, executive director of GM's Chevrolet Volt, said this week that the Volt hasn't gotten an EPA rating yet. But under current test procedures it could get a rating of better than 100 miles per gallon because it uses electricity rather than gasoline to propel the vehicle. The gasoline only would be used to power the on-board generator...
...Fair - twice the number who attended last year, according to organizers. But while the popularity of the packed fair was a sign that not even Ivy Leaguers are immune from job worries in this recession, it also signaled that green jobs - which include everything from solar panel installers to EPA administrators - could be a rare bright spot for employment. "The jobs are really coming in this field," says Karen Marcus, a "green niche coach" who was advising applicants at the Columbia fair. "We're finally mainstreaming the green career. We're on the cusp of opportunity." (See TIME's photos...
...Retired from the Secret Service in 1991 as leader of the agency's fraud division in order to join the Environmental Protection Agency. He became the EPA's head of enforcement, responsible for the agency's criminal investigations...