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The Clean Cars Bill would improve health and the environment in the commonwealth.

SUVs tightened their grip on drivers’ fancy in 2020, but the year only its mother could love also saw the arrival of some great new sedans. The best are refreshingly affordable, making them particularly attractive as the average transaction price of a vehicle car climbs inexorably toward a record $40,000, according to TrueCar. That’s counter to a cranky, but common, view that sedans are as dead as a New Year’s resolution on Jan. 2. In fact, SUVs’ sales ascendancy may free — or force, depending on your degree of cynicism — automakers to make better cars. “Fewer competitors can m...

Reprieve on methane rules. those two papers kind of say it all. the world is on fire. climate change is happening. and while we all know that to be true, the trump ep is going to roll back methane which has 80 times the heat trapping power of carbon dioxide in the first 20 years it's in the atmosphere. methane regulations were put in place by the obama administration in 2016, and many of the major energy companies actually support them. right now the president is not justifiedling around while the earth burns. he is actively setting new fires. the president is actively making the problem worse...

Of the major energy companies actually support them. right now the president is not justifiedling around while the earth burns. he is actively setting new fires. the president is actively making the problem worse. and it's not just this. this is the second proposed regulation -- regulatory rollback where the administration has tried to override the industry to make the planet less healthy. a few months ago you might remember the administration proposed a plan to lift mileage requirements of fuel efficiency standards on big auto, which much of big auto didn't even want. right now the trump admi...

Again as they will, foreign automakers are going to eat our lunch if our domestic automakers cannot deal with these new standards. >> we have been there before. everyone remembers 2008 when the gas prices spiked that summer absolutely decimated big auto here in the u.s. which then got crunched by the financial crisis. it strikes me that fuel efficiencies are a win-win. consumers pay less money for gas. the hair is cleaner and healthier. bigger carbon reductions in terms of climate change. what's not to like? >> it also creates additional jobs. and you have lots of people working in the clean e...