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Big cars are dead weight dragging down climate policy (ketanjoshi.co)

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[–] droans@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

The Obama admin began changing CAFE to use a whole-fleet average which would have closed the large vehicle loophole.

The Trump admin reversed that and pushed to eliminate CAFE altogether.

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