Weekly Climate Change Policy Update - October 25, 2010

Article by Kyle Danish, Shelley Fidler, Kevin Gallagher, Megan Ceronsky and Tomás Carbonell

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Commentary

Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), the front-runner for Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee if Republicans take the House in the mid-term elections, penned an editorial attributing the country's economic problems to "the administration's restrictive regulatory stranglehold on industry." Rep. Upton proposes that any significant new regulations should require Congressional approval . . . EPA and NHTSA are working on joint GHG emissions and fuel economy regulations for heavy-duty trucks . . . The European Union Council of Ministers issued a pre-Cancún statement saying that it would prefer a new treaty that builds on the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen Accord, but would live with a second commitment period under the Protocol. In contrast, a