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The EPA just proposed a huge crackdown on carbon emissions from trucks
2015-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed sweeping new regulations to slash greenhouse-gas emissions from all new heavy trucks, buses, and vans. This is a major piece of President Obama's broader plan to tackle global warming. The rationale sounds simple enough: Even though trucks make up just 5 percent of vehicles on the road, they account for 20 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions from transportation (since they're constantly in use). So... we should clean 'em up. To that end,...
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