Issues
GM Gets to Dump Its Polluted Sites
Detroit Free Press
August 7, 2009
GM Gets to Dump Its Polluted Sites
BY TIM HIGGINS
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
When General Motors Co. emerged from bankruptcy, it was freed of obligations for polluted properties at discarded plant sites that will require millions of dollars to clean up.
Distracted driving is dangerous driving
August 4, 2009
From the Official Blog of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
When I was home in Peoria a few weeks ago, Alyssa Burns, a 17-year-old high school student was killed when she drove off the road.
It turns out she was texting while driving.
We’ve all seen the footage of the bus driver who was talking and texting on two cell phones while driving.
He smashed into the back of a car, injured the driver, and ended up driving into a swimming pool.
Fuel Rules to Spare BMW, Daimler
The Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Power
July 28, 2009
Daniel Becker, director of the Washington-based Safe Climate Campaign, which advocates tougher regulation of automotive fuel economy and greenhouse-gas emissions, said BMW and Mercedes "should be required to meet the same standards as General Motors and Ford."
Editorials
Editorial: Driving, Dialing, and Dying
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mayor Nutter signed legislation in April
The device most motorists first knew as a "car phone" is wreaking havoc on the nation’s highways – where a person yakking on a cell phone behind the wheel is just as dangerous as a drunken driver.
Automakers promoting unsafe driving through new technologies
7/26/09
By JOSEPH SZCZESNY
Of The Oakland Press
Program offers cash for clunkers
July 22, 2009
"What began as a reasonable idea to get clunkers off the road, and try to move some more efficient vehicles in their stead, has been hijacked by the auto industry and their friends in congress," says Dan Becker of the Safe Climate Campaign.