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Why Medium & Heavy Duty Trucks Received New Fuel Standards
Carol Lee Rawn, Senior Manager of the Transportation Program for Ceres, discusses the impact of the new fuel-efficiency standards that the Administration passed for heavy and medium-duty trucks. Full Transcript: Ben Lack: The Obama Administration has recently passed some new fuel-efficiency standards for heavy and medium-duty...[read more]
Obama Finalizes First-Ever Pollution Standards For Trucks
Aug 9, President Obama will announce new fuel efficiency and carbon pollution standards for heavy-duty trucks. This is a historic step forward because these are first-ever standards of this type and they start of process of what are expected to be ongoing improvements in heavy truck performance. The standards will result in freight...[read more]
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