The Low Down On Green Living
May 19th, 2009
Goooobama! President Sets Strong Emissions Rules
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It is a great deal for the environment– and a terrible day for global warming. President Obama announced today tough new national rules for auto emissions and mileage standards. His administration has embraced standards that California sought to enact for years over the objections of the auto industry and the Bush administration.
The new rules, which will go into effect in 2012, will create a single new national standard that will yield a car and light truck fleet in the United States that is 40 percent more fuel-efficient by 2016 than it is today. The mandated national average for automobiles and light trucks will be 35.5 miles per gallon. The current national standard is slightly more than 25 miles per gallon.
Read more on the story from the New York Times here.
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chi-peakers
May 27th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
let’s hope the law isn’t reversed before it happens. it is crazy that even some hybrids coming out now still do not even get 30 mpg!
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