Sept. 10, 2009

By Jim Motavalli

...Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign at the Center for Auto Safety, thought he’d finally earned a bit of rest. His long fight for clean car legislation (mostly from a previous perch at the Sierra Club) had culminated in an all-smiles Washington event last May in which automakers, the federal government and the state of California (which had long sought to regulate tailpipe greenhouse gas) all held hands and agreed to a single federal standard for regulating those tailpipes.