United States

EPA Rules

Julia Newman

The Obama Administration, Transportation Department, and the Environmental Protection Agency, on Monday October 25th, set standards requiring greater fuel efficiency for trucks and buses, starting with 2014 car models. The Administration requires a 20% reduction in emission on heavy vehicles by 2018. This entails boosting the average heavy vehicles mpg from 6 to 8. Heavy vehicles, like trucks and buses, make up 4% of transportation in the United States. The goal of the new emission standards is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and money spent on oil.

• Mpg:Miles per gallon
• Greenhouse gas: Gases in that atmosphere that absorb and emit radiation, causing the greenhouse effect

Additional Reading

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/10/25/25greenwire-slide-in-epa-clean-water-criminal-enforcement-83471.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-diesel-trucks-20101026,0,3839160.story