02.02.2010
US Investments in High Speed Rail
The US government has committed US$ 8 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the development of high speed rail in the US. The bulk of the funding will go to new, large-scale programmes. Mr LaHood, Secretary of transportation, confirmed that US$ 1.25 billion will be used to develop a 140 km long high speed rail corridor in Florida between Tampa and Orlando.
25.05.2009
New Fuel Standards For Automakers
President Obama set in motion a new national policy aimed at both increasing fuel economy and reducing greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks sold in the United States. The new standards cover model years 2012-2016 and ultimately require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5 mpg in 2016.
02.12.2008
Barack Obama to save US economy
US President-elect Barack Obama has unveiled a US$ 700 billion construction plan for the nation`s infrastructure, education and energy sectors. The plan aims to create 2.5 million jobs by 2011, and is the biggest public works programme since then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt`s New Deal, which helped pull the US economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
30.06.2008
European Union to Cap Airline Emissions
The European Union reached a landmark agreement to cap emissions from aircraft, raising the stakes in an increasingly ferocious battle with the United States over how to regulate global greenhouse gases.
09.06.2008
Bush Votes Down Climate Bill
President Bush weighed against a Senate bill that would require dramatic cuts in climate-changing greenhouse pollution, cautioning senators "to be very careful about running up enormous costs for future generations of Americans.
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