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Court rebukes Bush fuel economy plan

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court has sharply rejected the Bush administration's new pollution standards for most sport-utility vehicles, pickups and vans and ordered regulators to draft a new plan that's tougher on auto emissions, according to USA Today.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration failed to address why the so-called light trucks are allowed to pollute more than passenger cars and didn't properly assess greenhouse gas emissions when it set new minimum miles-per-gallon requirements for models in 2008 to 2011.

The court also said the administration failed to include in the new rules heavier trucks driven as commuter vehicles, among several other deficiencies found.

Posted by Peter C. T. Elsworth  at 10:07 AM to Fuel economy | Permalink

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