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AB 717, Anti-Clearcutting bill Northwest Salmon Face Extinction S B 1558 Protect America's Open Space & Farmland Write the EPA about New Diesel Regulations Brownsfields Clean Action Alert Help Curb Sprawling Development Zero Emissions Vehicles: Write Governor Davis Today HR 4560: Snowmobiles in National Parks? Global Warming: Senate Victory On Cafe Our Children Need Good Schools AND Healthy National Forests California Red-Legged Frog Recovery Plan Conservation & Reinvestment Act Yahi Group:
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Global Warming: Senate Victory On Cafe With the Senate CAFE vote looming, the auto industry cut a deal to kick-start a study of CAFE standards. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will do a joint study on miles per gallon standards and make a recommendation to Congress by July 1, 2001. This will get DO collecting data and looking at the issues. It will also put information together that will be essential to a rulemaking process next time around. This is a huge victory for the environment and consumers, and is a direct result of your relentless phone calls and letters to your senators. The study would not have happened without the outstanding efforts of all of you telling the Senate to get moving on cleaner cars. The auto industry knew that we were going to get more votes than last year— and now we’ve got the ball rolling on better CAFE standards. We won! They lost. Take Action: Call and write the White House and urge them to take advantage of the opportunity that Congress has given them to improve miles per gallon standards. State that you’re counting on them to make sure that this study leads to tougher miles per gallon standards and you hope they will take the lead on the biggest single step we can take to curb global warming, raising CAFE standards. Raising CAFE standards will reduce our dependence upon foreign oil, slash pollution and will save us money at the gas pump.
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