Bama-magic, or lack thereof

Jan 12, 2009

Updated Dec 14, 2009

Alabama state troopers teamed up with over-the-road truckers in the state in December to enforce highway laws. According to perennial results in Overdrive‘s Highway Report Card survey, the latest out this month on p. 24 of the magazine, the effort was a long time coming. Alabama, with only a single full-service scale house (on I-20 westbound near the Georgia border, though there’s a smaller one on I-10 near Mobile) and a small number of troopers compared to many states, has placed first in the Weakest Tr href=”http://digg.com/submit”>Digg

If finalized, this proposal would remove all greenhouse gas standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines, starting with EPA’s first greenhouse gas regulations set in 2010 for light-duty vehicles and those set in 2011 for medium-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles and engines – which includes off-cycle credits like the much hated start-stop feature on most new cars.

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