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From: The Washington Times | May 19, 2009
President Obama plans to announce Tuesday a new policy that for the first time merges fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks with limits on tailpipe pollutants, an effort to unify regulations that will greatly influence how the nations beleaguered automakers design future vehicles. The new rules would reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 900 million tons over five years, the equivalent of taking 177 million cars off the road or shutting down 194 coal plants, a senior administration official told reporters Monday night on the condition of anonymity. White House officials said the new standards will bring together domestic automakers, and federal …
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