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Obama Orders Stricter Fuel Efficiency Standards For Big Trucks
2014-02-18 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Trucks on U.S. roads and highways have long needed an efficiency makeover, and President Barack Obama demanded it Tuesday afternoon in Maryland. Obama said his administration will issue tougher fuel-efficiency standards for delivery trucks by March 2016, The Associated Press reported. Heavy-duty trucks are only 4 percent of the vehicles on the country`s roads, but account for about 20 percent of the greenhouse gases that the transportation sector emits into the air. "For decades the fuel efficiency...
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