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2025-01-31 Home Front: Politix

[NEW] Transportation Secretary Acts to Revoke Emission Rules

[Epoch Times] Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy said on Jan. 29 that his department is taking action to remove stringent fossil fuel emission standards instituted by the Biden administration. In December 2023, the DOT’s Federal Highway Administration finalized a rule establishing a method to measure and report transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions.

The rule was set up to "confront the increasingly urgent climate crisis," according to the executive summary, and was expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. This was part of a plan to reach "net-zero emissions by no later than 2050," according to a 2021 White House fact sheet.

On Jan. 29, Duffy approved a proposal to rescind the rule. "The rescission reflects the Administration’s commitment to unleashing American energy and eliminating unlawful regulatory burdens," the DOT said in a Jan. 29 statement.

Duffy also issued a memorandum on Jan. 28 related to "fixing the CAFE program." The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regulate the distance vehicles are required to travel per gallon of fuel. Duffy said that "artificially high" fuel economy standards imposed considerably large costs which rendered "many new vehicle models unaffordable for the average American family and small business owner."

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#1 The Resistance Attempts a Coup at USAID and It Doesn't Go Well
Tuesday, acting USAID Administrator Jason Gray ordered nearly 60 senior bureaucrats placed on indefinite administrative leave for taking actions to evade Trump's executive orders

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#2 FCC Chief Orders Investigation of Illegality at NPR and PBS and Casts Doubt on Their Reason to Exist

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#3 ...they were created during the Great Society efforts by LBJ about the time the Donk commingled the income streams of taxes and social security into one account. The 'goal' was to address programming for the lower economic strata, as though 'Evening at the Met' had a following in such programming. In the world of the Net, podcasts, cable and other means of info distribution, it has no rational reason for national subsidy other than as a one party propaganda outlet.

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