Fuel Efficiency
For decades, Senator Markey has led Congressional efforts to increase the fuel efficiency of cars and light trucks in order to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. President Obama announced that by 2025, the automotive fleet will average 54.5 miles per gallon. This standard will reduce the need for as much as 3.8 million barrels of oil per day by 2030, and was enabled by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which included higher fuel economy standards co-authored by Markey while serving in the House. The fuel economy legislation, combined with the 2007 Supreme Court decision of Massachusetts v. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which affirmed the agency’s authority to reduce greenhouse gas pollution from automobiles, paved the way for these new standards.
- Markey: EPA Announcement on Fuel Economy Standards Is Holiday-Season Gift That Will Keep On Giving Posted on 11/30/16
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Markey: Exxon’s Crude Oil Export Call Continues Big Oil’s Coordinated Attack on U.S. Law, Consumers Posted on 12/12/13
Today Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, reacted to a Wall Street Journal report that ExxonMobil has joined other major oil companies such as Shell and ConocoPhillips and the industry’s lobbying association, the American Petroleum Institute, in calling for a change to U.S. law that would lift the restrictions on exporting domestically-produced crude oil.
Read More - Markey Urges USTR to Fight Oil Industry Attempts to Export Crude Oil Posted on 12/03/13
- Markey: McCarthy, Moniz Bring Massachusetts Spirit of Innovation to EPA/DOE Posted on 03/04/13
- Markey: End of Republican War on Energy Efficiency? Posted on 02/26/13
- Markey: Republicans Manufacture War on Coal, Miss Real Energy Revolution Posted on 09/21/12
- Markey: American Consumers In The Driver’s Seat With New Fuel Economy Standards Posted on 08/28/12