Dan Becker
Dan Becker
The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the Scottish-American preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...
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This proposal gives automakers another excuse to not make the cars that people want - ones that use available technology to save consumers money at the gas pump and cut pollution. Making our cars and trucks go farther on a gallon of gas is the biggest single step we can take to save money at the gas pump, cut oil dependence, and curb global warming.
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It has been a failure because the big industrial polluters, led by the United States, have failed to clean up our act.
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Landlords need to be more accountable for the people in their buildings. It is not OK to have four or five or six or 10 people sleeping in an apartment designed for three, and it's not good for the community.
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We'll continue to have a major presence and impact here. These latest asset decisions are aimed at strengthening our ability to continue to succeed in the global market, which is critical to our future as a major employer here in Puget Sound.
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We hope that helping to make the Mercury Mariner Hybrid a success will encourage Ford to invest in better technology to increase the fuel economy of its entire fleet.
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In fact, when you burn coal, you emit more acid rain pollution, more air pollution, more smog and more global warming pollution which threatens the entire planet.
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It's not every day that the Sierra Club is able to applaud Ford's actions.
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The biggest single step to saving money at the gas pump, curbing global warming, and cutting America's oil dependence is to make our cars, SUVs and other trucks go farther on a gallon of gas.
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The biggest single step that the president could take to cut our oil addiction, curb global warming and save consumers money at the gas pump is raising (fuel economy) standards substantially, and that's not what they're doing. They are tinkering around the edges rather than using the most powerful tool they've got.
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As soon as you implement a strong, fixed target for reducing oil use, stricter fuel standards will inevitably come into play. Incentives alone won't do the trick.
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At a time when Americans are paying record prices for gas, the Bush administration has sided with its cronies in the auto industry and rejected real solutions.
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This fuel cell vehicle shows the days of the internal combustion engine are numbered. We don't know how big that number is, but they're definitely on their way out.
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Ford's move to increase hybrid production is a step in the right direction, and it places hybrids front and center in the future of the auto industry. I think they've learned their lesson (from broken promises in the past), and we take them at their word.