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Government Accountability Office Predicts Trouble with PPP Loan Forgiveness
NHTSA Announces Effort to Modernize Vehicle Lighting Standards The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report Monday warning of potential delays and bureaucratic difficulties for businesses attempting to convert their Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans into forgivable grants. As of September 8, the Small Business Association (SBA) has processed and forgiven only 56,000 of…
Read MoreGAVDA Opposes Vehicle Data Restrictions
NHTSA Announces Effort to Modernize Vehicle Lighting Standards In an open letter, ASA and members of GAVDA stated their disagreement with the OEM’s recent letter to limit the access to vehicle data. In a letter to the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation had sought for Congress to intervene in…
Read MoreNSC releases preliminary semiannual estimates for road safety
NHTSA Announces Effort to Modernize Vehicle Lighting Standards WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Safety Council (NSC) released their preliminary semiannual estimates for road safety today, and the results show a slight 1 percent increase in total motor-vehicle deaths in 2020 compared to 2019. However, total number of vehicle miles travelled have decreased by nearly 17…
Read MoreCongressman calls for GSA to halt sale of recalled vehicles
NHTSA Announces Effort to Modernize Vehicle Lighting Standards WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, recently wrote a letter to General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator Emily W. Murphy regarding the GSA policies of sale and lease of automobiles subject to manufacturer recall. In his letter, Krishnamoorthi…
Read MorePresident Trump Is Modernizing Federal Environmental Reviews
NHTSA Announces Effort to Modernize Vehicle Lighting Standards Per the White House: The Trump Administration is issuing a final rule that will modernize and accelerate environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), so that infrastructure can be built in a timely, efficient, and affordable manner. The final rule modernizes Federal NEPA regulations, including…
Read MoreOzone Pollution Continues to Decline Under President Trump, EPA Proposes to Retain Existing NAAQS for Ozone
NHTSA Announces Effort to Modernize Vehicle Lighting Standards The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced “its proposal to retain, without changes, the existing, more stringent 2015 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone. This proposal comes after careful review and consideration of the most current available scientific evidence and risk and exposure information, and…
Read MoreWhite House Signs PPP Extension
NHTSA Announces Effort to Modernize Vehicle Lighting Standards On July 4, 2020, President Trump signed S. 4116 into law. The bill extends the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) application period to August 8, 2020. The U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill last week. To read the statement from the White House,…
Read MoreHouse Passes PPP Extension
NHTSA Announces Effort to Modernize Vehicle Lighting Standards The U.S. House of Representatives just passed S. 4116, a bill that extends the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) application period to August 8, 2020. The U.S. Senate passed the bill last night under unanimous consent. The bill will be sent to President Trump’s desk to be signed…
Read MoreU.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Releases Global Warming Plan
NHTSA Announces Effort to Modernize Vehicle Lighting Standards The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis has released an extensive plan to help curb global warming, with an ambitious goal of reducing human-caused greenhouse gas net emissions to zero by 2050, beyond which the U.S. would become a net absorber of CO2 from the atmosphere.…
Read MoreWhite House Announces First Day of USMCA into Force
NHTSA Announces Effort to Modernize Vehicle Lighting Standards Per the White House: Today, Wednesday, July 1, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) enters into force. More North American Auto Content: Under USMCA’s rules vehicles must be built with at least 75 percent of parts made in North America in order to qualify for zero tariffs, up…
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