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Dressing for Copenhagen
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The Huffington Post
Oct. 18, 2009
By William S. Becker
…EPA and the Department of Transportation have proposed standards to increase the fuel efficiency of cars and light trucks in the U.S. by 40 percent between 2012 and 2016. The new standards will cut carbon emissions by nearly a billion tons and reduce oil consumption by nearly 2 billion barrels. Dan Becker of the Safe Climate Campaign called this action "the single biggest step the American government has ever taken to cut greenhouse-gas emissions…"