Automakers, Congress to Discuss Climate
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WASHINGTON -- Confronted with congressional concerns about global warming, the leaders of the U.S. auto industry are highlighting their work to develop alternative vehicles and asserting that the burdens of climate change cannot fall to one industry alone.
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The Senate Commerce Committee hears testimony on the connection between greenhouse gases and climate changes. Many legislators want to take action, but the best course remains unclear. Michael Grebb reports from Washington.
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A Senate blueprint for tackling global warming would require power plants and vehicles to reduce their greenhouse gases by 70 percent. A chief sponsor said President Bush's approach of voluntary action will not meet the goal.
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World leaders are set to take part in a special UN meeting in New York to discuss global warming.
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Chief executives of U.S.- based automakers were told bluntly by Democratic leaders on Wednesday to expect higher fuel standards, but the industry lobbied hard to avoid sharply higher mileage targets.
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Congress is on the verge of telling American business to create a huge new industry capable of converting agricultural wastes and other plant material into automotive fuel.
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Automakers, SUV owners, and the federal government may balk at the state's latest effort to curb air pollution.
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The world&#39;s biggest automakers, GM and Toyota, have taken different routes so far to developing cleaner vehicles but agree there is no one way to achieving lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
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The search for new strategies to confront global warming takes center stage in Buenos Aires on Monday as thousands of environmentalists and government policy-makers gather for an international conference on climate change.
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California is expected this week to order automakers to cut &quot;greenhouse gases&#39; from passenger cars, trucks and SUVs, becoming the first state in the nation to try to combat global warming.
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The U.S. Senate approved compromise legislation on Thursday that would force automakers to produce vehicles that get sharply higher gasoline mileage by 2020, a cornerstone of efforts to reduce oil imports.
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U.S. policy on global warming seems headed for a tipping point, with politicians, business leaders and economists joining environmentalists to call for new laws to limit greenhouse gases that spur climate change.
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A new approach is needed for setting fuel-economy standards, lawmakers said Wednesday as they considered changes amid concerns about global warming and the problems of struggling U.S. automakers.
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Legislators meet for talks in Washington aimed at finding a new global deal to curb climate change.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 16--If California hopes to clean up its air and remain a leader in the fight against global warming. It will need to develop new fuels and vehicles to complement the laws it has enacted.
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Expect a political debate over how to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions come January, analysts say.
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Rising global temperatures that are melting the Arctic and expanding the oceans are now drawing more than 80 world leaders to the U.N. podium for an unprecedented summit Monday on how to combat climate change.From California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a champion of climate-saving legislation, the presidents and premiers will hear that even an often-reluctant United States is pitching in.'California is moving the United States beyond debate and doubt to action,' he says in remarks prepared for the meeting's morning kickoff. Read more