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Five Important Points About the “SAFE Vehicle Rule”

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EPA and DOT estimate that “upstream” carbon dioxide emissions from oil production, transportation, refining, and distribution would increase by 159 MMT (over the lifetime of the vehicles produced from MY1979 through MY 2029). The safety benefits of the rule may have been overestimated.

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Cities & the Inflation Reduction Act

Law Columbia

Clean Air Act appropriating $2.25 An additional appropriation of $750 million is made for the same set of activities in ports located in nonattainment areas, as designated under Section 107 of the Clean Air Act. States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding.

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