John DeCicco, a professor of practice within the Sustainable Systems field of study at SNRE and an expert on renewable energy, discussed fuel economy standards with Greenwire in the context of a second Obama administration.

DeCicco spoke with Jean Chemnick about how the Obama administration starting in 2009 began to orchestrate the higher standards through Congress and with automakers' lobbyists. The article examined how those policy changes were achieved politically and what the parallels are to upcoming efforts to rein in carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's power plants. DeCicco called Obama's fuel economy deal of 2010 a "huge cow-herding exercise."

"To the auto industry, it was like their nightmare had come true," DeCicco is quoted as saying. "Their longtime friends, the Republican administration, had turned on them because the political pressure to do something on energy security was so high at that time.”

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