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White House to weaken climate-fighting fuel efficiency targets for 2030


The plan faced opposition from OEMs, car dealers, and the United Auto Workers.

a backwards step — Enlarge/ Polluted street scenes like this will remain common in the United States, which will abandon ambitious fuel efficiency standards in the face of complaints from automakers and unions. In addition to the tougher new fuel economy standards, the auto industry also wants to see the government relax attempts to more strictly regulate particulate pollution from gasoline-powered vehicles. In 2014 he decided to indulge his lifelong passion for the car by leaving the National Human Genome Research Institute and launching Ars Technica's automotive coverage.

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