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High Gas Prices Spark
Debate In Washington
Feeling the heat of high gas prices this election season, Congress appears closer to raising the fuel economy standard than ever before. Due to the automakers’ powerful lobby, Congress has not raised the fuel economy standard, often called CAFE (for corporate average fuel economy), in more than 10 years, but that could change.
Congress Fails To Increase Chemical Security
Across the U.S., thousands of industrial facilities use and store hazardous chemicals in quantities such that a release would put large numbers of Americans at risk of serious injury or death.
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FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS UNDER DEBATE—Texas Rep. Joe Barton, seen here on C-SPAN, introduced a Bush-administration backed energy bill. Amendments were proposed to include increasing fuel efficiency standards in the measure.
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