EPA Testimony of California Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez on Fuel Efficiency Standards and Federal Waiver

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

By Fabian Nunez
Speaker of the California Assembly

Speaker Fabian Nunez testified yesterday before the Environmental Protection Agency in Sacramento to encourage them to grant California's request for a waiver to implement the state's fuel efficiency standards.

The Speaker's remarks are below in full and you can watch them being delivered.

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for coming to Sacramento to consider this waiver.

Climate change brought on by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases has become the environmental crisis of our time.

Today you have the opportunity help California take a vital step in slowing or stopping this crisis by granting California a waiver to allow for tailpipe emission standards of global warming causing greenhouse gases.

A little background: