The goal is to set one national standard that will rapidly increase fuel efficiency -- without compromising safety -- by an average of 5 percent each year between 2012 and 2016, building on the 2011 standard my administration set shortly after taking office.
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In 1971, adherence to the gold standard meant the Nixon administration faced a politically difficult decision.
The 54.5 miles per gallon standard adopted by the administration in July 2011 is a compromise between the 4 percent-per-year (51 MPG) and 5 percent-per-year (56 MPG) CO2 reduction scenarios.
In the USA, the PCMH is now the standard for the US Veterans Administration and the US military.
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The Clinton administration changed the standard that had been set in 1942 from 50 parts per billion of arsenic in drinking water to 10 parts per billion.
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In addition, the administration will set a higher national standard for vehicle tailpipe emissions that matches the stringent rules that California and 13 other states sought to apply.
The standard was raised six times during the Clinton administration, the last of which raised the tier-three requirement to 85, 000 MTOPS, about the level of a networked system with 32 Intel Pentium III chips.
It's somewhat of a formality--last month, the administration announced that automakers agreed to a national standard for tailpipe emissions and an acceleration of the government's schedule for fuel-economy standards.
Last month the Democratic administration also put in place a final safety standard, vigorously opposed by business, which it says will prevent 460, 000 painful workplace injuries a year caused by repetitive motion.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration announced the first-ever national tailpipe emissions standard.
It's another scientific failure for big pharma, and perhaps also a sign that the Food and Drug Administration is holding new heart pills to a tougher standard.
It is important to note here that if the U.S. government implemented a new national gold standard, any flaws in its conception or kinks in its administration would cause economic pain throughout the system.
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The Transportation Security Administration has begun testing a new program allowing agents to select passengers to bypass standard security checks instead of an expedited line based on personal observations about passengers' behaviour.
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He took historic action -- his administration did -- to confront climate change, including proposing the first national standard for harmful carbon pollution for new power plants, as well as establishing unprecedented standards for cars and trucks that will slash emissions of carbon pollution while, at the same time, saving consumers billions of dollars.
The Obama administration also wants to facilitate economic expansion, encourage job growth and improve the living standard of all Americans.
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They have criticized the way the administration has handled the war, but it barely differs from the criticism served up by The Weekly Standard.
It directs my administration, under the leadership of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, to develop a standard to improve fuel efficiency and reduce harmful emissions for trucks, starting with the model year 2014.
And I think in many ways it's a testament to the hard work of a lot of people in the administration in bringing a very disparate group of stakeholders together for the very first time to agree on one standard for emissions and for fuel economy, something that hasn't been done before.
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