Calif. OKs World's Toughest Smog Rules
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LOS ANGELES - California air regulators Friday unanimously approved the world's most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming - a move that could affect car and truck buyers from coast to coast.    Under the regulations, the auto industry must cut exhaust from cars and light trucks by 25 percent and from larger trucks and sport utility vehicles by 18 percent...
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California air regulators on Thursday took up the world's most ambitious rules to reduce car emissions that contribute to global warming &#151; an effort that could have a sweeping effect on how the country fights vehicle pollution.
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The Bush administration imposed stricter standards on the nation's air quality yesterday for the first time in nearly a decade, ruling that communities across the country must cut back on the amount of soot in the air on any given day.
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By Chris Bowman, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  May 31--California's much-vaunted law restricting greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles won't make a dent in global warming, even if adopted worldwide, a group of automobile manufacturers declared Wednesday.
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California made a bold move to curb  global warming by passing on Thursday the first bill in the  United States to cap man-made greenhouse gas emissions, an  action state leaders hope will be copied across the country.
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Recently issued rules by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency focus on severely limiting the amount of toxic emissions from cars and trucks.
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By ERICA WERNER  WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will rule by the end of the year on California's long-standing petition to implement greenhouse gas reductions on automobiles.  The law can't take effect unless California gets a federal waiver.
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U.S. environmental regulators issued new standards on Friday to reduce the amount of cancer-causing emissions from gasoline, vehicles operating in cold weather and portable gas cans.
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Florida, the fourth most-populous U.S. state, will impose strict new air-pollution standards that aim to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050, according to draft regulations released on Wednesday.
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California air regulators Friday unanimously approved the world&#39;s most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming - a decision that could affect car and truck buyers from coast to coast.
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FRESNO, Calif. -- Automobile manufacturers sued Tuesday to block California regulators from adopting the world&#39;s toughest vehicle-emissions standards, arguing in a lawsuit that the standards are the federal government&#39;s responsibility.
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Southern California's smog-fighting agency went after emissions of the bovine variety Friday, adopting the nation's first rules to reduce air pollution from dairy cow manure.
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A federal judge in Vermont gave the first legal endorsement to rules in California, being copied in 13 other states, that intend to reduce greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles.
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By The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Sep. 4--California emerged last week as the leading state in the nation  to address greenhouse gas emissions with legislative approval of caps on  carbon dioxide and other pollutants. Gov.
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California air regulators Friday unanimously approved the world&#39;s most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that are believed to contribute to global warming.
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California regulators yesterday approved the nation&#39;s first limits on greenhouse gas produced by automobiles, requiring an average 30 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions from new cars and light trucks by 2016.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that Louisiana meets a new federal standard for a type of air pollution. Louisiana was one of 30 states that got the clean bill of health