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Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

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Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. We are imperilling food production, polluting our ocean and air, creating a more dangerous, less stable environment, and holding back sustainable development.

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California Air Resources Board unanimously adopts Advanced Clean Cars Package

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The Advanced Clean Cars package will help clean our air, help us fight climate change, and perhaps most important for average citizens, save thousands of dollars over the life of the vehicles. LEV III Board Book. ZEV Board Book. CFO Board Book. This marks a new chapter in the history of ARB. ”.

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EPA proposes repeal of Obama Clean Power Plan

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Prior to the CPP being issued, every Section 111 rule on the books, including a handful of existing source rules and around 100 new-source rules, obeyed this limit. As the CPP departed from this traditional limit on EPA’s authority under an “inside the fence line” interpretation, EPA is proposing to repeal it.

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

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Kelly Blue Book earlier this month reported that the the estimated average transaction price for a light vehicle in the United States was $37,401 in August 2019, up 2% from August 2018. California will be able to keep in place and enforce programs to address smog and other forms of air pollution caused by motor vehicles.

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

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Since President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act in 1963, federal regulations aimed at reducing air pollution have gradually grown stronger. Oge led the team that authored the 2010-2025 Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards, and described the process in her 2016 book, Driving the Future.

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Former EPA exec Margo Oge explains the new federal emissions rules

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To help us sort out how the new policies are likely to unfold, we turned to Margo Oge, former Director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality and author of the book Driving the Future. For me, the most important thing is that there is an urgency across the planet to address climate change. It has been on hold.

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