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Big cars are dead weight dragging down climate policy

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Big cars are dead weight dragging down climate policy

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and [email protected]English • 7 months ago

Australia’s government has released a new transport climate policy. But it doesn’t deal with the problem of car bloat: the main driver of rising emissions.

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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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