White House to Toughen Fuel Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Time: When it comes to environmental initiatives, President Obama’s controversial efforts to impose some form of greenhouse gas regulation on America’s power plants have gotten most of the attention. There’s good reason for that—the utility sector is the single biggest carbon emitter in the U.S., and the future of coal power in particular could decide the climate future of the U.S. But establishing climate regulations for electricity production has been a long, politically fraught process, one that is far from finished.

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