Comments on: Obama Will Allow States to Set Emissions Standards, The Weakonomist is Confused http://weakonomics.com/2009/01/30/obama-will-allow-states-to-set-emissions-standards-the-weakonomist-is-confused/ Everything That's Wrong With You And Your Money Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: the ginger avenger http://weakonomics.com/2009/01/30/obama-will-allow-states-to-set-emissions-standards-the-weakonomist-is-confused/comment-page-1/#comment-1521 the ginger avenger Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:43:09 +0000 http://weakonomics.com/?p=935#comment-1521 I heard a great discussion about this on NPR a while back and I too was caught off guard by this. I'm in favor of bettering emissions standards obviously, but if left up to the states, you know some of them are going to be happy with just "not failing." In other words, they're going to do the least amount of work possible to not get punished by the fed. I commend California for being a leader in this movement, but I would've liked to see Obama mandate that all states have to reach CA's standards by 2020 or something. Otherwise, states like the one I live in won't really be doing much in this area. I also heard a discussion about (it was either Washington or Oregon) passing laws regarding e-waste recycling. Manufacturers of computers, batteries, cell phones, etc. that have a lot of toxic chemicals/metals in their make-up are now having to pay a certain amount of money towards the recycling of their products. Similar-type discussion...hooray for the west coast embracing progress. I heard a great discussion about this on NPR a while back and I too was caught off guard by this. I’m in favor of bettering emissions standards obviously, but if left up to the states, you know some of them are going to be happy with just “not failing.” In other words, they’re going to do the least amount of work possible to not get punished by the fed. I commend California for being a leader in this movement, but I would’ve liked to see Obama mandate that all states have to reach CA’s standards by 2020 or something. Otherwise, states like the one I live in won’t really be doing much in this area.

I also heard a discussion about (it was either Washington or Oregon) passing laws regarding e-waste recycling. Manufacturers of computers, batteries, cell phones, etc. that have a lot of toxic chemicals/metals in their make-up are now having to pay a certain amount of money towards the recycling of their products. Similar-type discussion…hooray for the west coast embracing progress.

]]> By: teeef http://weakonomics.com/2009/01/30/obama-will-allow-states-to-set-emissions-standards-the-weakonomist-is-confused/comment-page-1/#comment-1500 teeef Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:52:01 +0000 http://weakonomics.com/?p=935#comment-1500 ahhh, you make me smile :) and i cannot disagree. ahhh, you make me smile :)

and i cannot disagree.

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