Memo to: Fellow Members of Congress

Re: Support for legislation to abolish an antiquated law.

I urge you to join us in sponsoring the Hall-Latta-Flake-Issa-Upton-Noem-Goodlatte Act.

For too long, science has been trotted out to justify environmental protection, when it is actually being used...

Despite another round of $4 gasoline and a continuing surge of consumer interest in high-mileage cars, the auto industry is trying to slither out of tougher fuel efficiency and emissions standards. California can put things right.

By writing the nation's first global warming emissions rules nearly a decade ago under...

This blog was written by our colleague, Benjamin Kelley, a member of the board of directors of the Center for Auto Safety.

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is a medical doctor who seems to have forgotten his Hippocratic Oath, which requires him to "do no harm." Coburn is already well known...

WASHINGTON -- Here is a test for the new Republican majority headed for the House of Representatives under the banner of cutting the budget deficit, ending federal bailouts and showing fairness to taxpayers.

The American people have saved General Motors with more than $50 billion in bailouts and...

The Environmental Protection Administration's report on gas mileage told us that the 2009 model cars and light trucks sold in the United States achieved the first substantial improvement in fuel economy since 1980.

No big surprise there: The country was struggling with the impact of the most severe economic downturn...

In their zeal to live free from outside interference, the tea parties are shooting at the wrong target.

They would be right to be angry with an oil industry poisoning their water, an auto industry polluting their air and agribusiness providing unsafe food.

Instead they are attacking the government, the...

The next big thing from Detroit may not just be a new car, but a new car industry: Transformed, modern and competitive.

This month, with traditional fanfare, Detroit is launching the new model year. More quietly, the Obama administration is preparing to help shape the cars we will be driving...

What do we do after BP fixes the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico -- days, weeks or months from now? We tell them what to do with the rest of their oil: Keep it in the ground.

The Gulf spill is an environmental disaster that will happen again until...

United States action on global warming is long overdue. But energy industry lobbyists and their Senate allies have thwarted the best efforts of three leading senators. The result: A weak bill with egregious flaws. Fortunately, it is temporarily derailed. This hiatus provides President Obama and the three senators...

Two federal agencies, working with California, have taken the biggest step in the nation's history to reduce the United States' global warming footprint. On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced specific rules that require automakers to build cars, SUVs and minivans...

This commentary appeared on ClimateProgress.org.

The Office of Management and Budget is proposing to skew the formula used to weigh pending government regulations, reducing the value assigned to potential benefits.

The result would be to give industry a strengthened weapon to fight standards with huge claims of anticipated...

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to bid farewell to a giant, one whose demise has been recorded around the world; such was the impact of this icon of the interstates. One of massive strength, it left behind a vast mark -- some would say gash -- on...

As General Motors faces the prospect of a fourth CEO in the space of a year, there is good news and bad news about the iconic American company. The good news is that it has survived years of mismanagement, Hummers and other gas guzzlers. The bad news? We, the American...

Cross-posted from Truthdig.com

In Copenhagen, a major binding agreement at the global warming summit is not to be. Not this year. In Washington, the Senate is so divided that it became clear months ago that climate legislation will be pushed off until 2010 at the earliest.

Still,...

This blog was authored by our colleague Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director of the Center for Auto Safety

Anne Ferro, a trucking industry lobbyist should not be the next head of the key federal agency regulating the trucking industry. President Obama nominated Ferro, President and CEO of the Maryland Motor Truck...

Should taxpayers subsidize the sale of 18-mile-per-gallon SUVs?

That is the question at the heart of a still-quiet but heated debate that is likely to flare into full view in Congress in coming weeks. It brings together two issues at the intersection of the toughest policy challenges facing Congress and...

Gone are GM's rhetoric echoing in the Oval Office, Exxon's denial of science, and Dick Cheney's years of inaction. When it comes to fighting global warming, President Obama has swept them all away in his first 100 days in office.

He has put a new and proper reliance on science....

Unveiling his far-reaching auto plan, President Obama gave a nod to a little-noticed movement in Congress to clear the roads of gas-guzzling clunkers best destined for the crusher.

It's an attractive idea. Think of it as: "Get the Jalopies off the Road."

The theory is simple enough: Reward owners for...

Let's give a cheer for President Obama's order Monday that his Environmental Protection Agency reconsider President Bush's rejection of the request by California and 13 other states to write their own rules on greenhouse gas emissions. Clearly, they will be tougher than anything the Federal government has produced.

On his...

In a little-noticed decision, the Bush administration this week slammed the environmental door -- walking away from what could have been its most far-reaching measure to cool a warming climate while heating up a frozen economy.

With the same stroke, President Bush handed the Obama administration a major opportunity...