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California close to regaining control of tailpipe emissions from EPA

Enlarge / Traffic jam forms on Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles. (credit: Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News) The Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge associated with restoring California’s ability to set strict tailpipe emissions limits, according to news reports, while at the same time looking in adopting a version of the state’s […]

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More EVs, hybrids likely to follow revised EPA fuel economy standards

Enlarge (credit: Luke Sharrett via Getty Images ) The Environmental Protection Agency today announced more stringent fuel economy requirements that will require passenger vehicles to travel 70 percent farther on a gallon of gasoline. The Biden administration introduced earlier this year that it would be revising the Trump-era specifications, which sought to increase fleet average […]

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One of Biden’s first climate actions looks at fuel efficiency rollback

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden sits in the Oval Office as he signs a series of orders at the White House in Washington, DC, after being sworn in at the US Capitol on January 20, 2021. (credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) One of the first official actions taken by President Joe Biden after […]

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US vehicle fuel efficiency effectively stalled over the last 10 years

Enlarge / The average car or light truck on US roads is 11.8 years old. (credit: Harvey Schwartz | Getty Images) The last few years have seen a rather bitter fight over vehicle pollution between the federal government and California, with automakers taking sides. In August 2012, during the Obama administration, the US Environmental Protection […]