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Obama pitches big anti-smog effort in environmental push
2013-03-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama pitched the first major environmental effort of his second term on Friday in a bid to slash smog-forming emissions from gasoline that have been linked to lung and heart ailments, setting up a fight with Republicans and the oil industry. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the so-called Tier 3 rules that would require refiners to cut the sulfur content of gasoline to 10 parts per million (ppm) by 2017 from the current standard of 30 ppm. Reducing sulfur...
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