The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have just proposed new rules to reduce global warming pollution from America's automobiles.
This is a critical step in the our efforts to regulate global warming pollution. This proposed rule will cut global warming pollution, improve automobile fuel efficiency and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Let the EPA know that you support this proposed new rule and to look for more ways to curb the pollution that causes global warming.
Re: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0472
I support the proposed EPA - NHTSA rule to set strong global warming pollution standards for personal vehicles.
This landmark rule would:
-- Limit greenhouse gas pollution from automobiles;
-- Improve fuel efficiency by about 5% annually;
-- Reduce fleet-wide greenhouse gases 19% by 2030; and
-- Cut carbon dioxide emissions by an estimated 950 million metric tons and 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the lifetime of the vehicles sold under the program (model years 2012-2016).
Global warming is the most serious environmental threat facing the planet today. Americans face a wide variety of public health threats, from the spread of infectious diseases to worsening air quality to more intense weather events heat waves, floods, droughts.
[Your comments]
I applaud EPA and NHTSA for setting the first greenhouse gas emissions limits in American history and encourage the Obama administration to continue to find ways to curb the pollution that causes global warming.
