US MOVE TO CURB CO2 EMISSIONS.

Europe Energy, May, 2007

EU officials have cautiously welcomed the announcement by US President George Bush on 14 May that he plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars. "We welcome any move to reduce greenhouse gases," a source told Europolitics Energy, adding that the EU was not making more detailed comment to avoid being seen as bullying Washington into further action.

Bush has ordered the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to adopt a regulation by the end of 2008 to make cars and light trucks more fuel efficient and increase the amount of low-emission fuels used in them. To make this administrative regulation more legally watertight, Bush has in parallel sent draft legislation to the US Congress. The move comes in response to the landmark ruling of the US Supreme...

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