Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to push ahead with regulation which will require the production of cleaner gasoline and impose fleet-wide pollution limits on new vehicles by 2017. According to a report in the Washington Post, the rules will mandate that the sulfur content of US gasoline be reduced by two-thirds, from 30 to 10 parts per million—a move which would add less than a cent per gallon to the price of gas, while having an overall environmental impact comparable to taking 33 million cars off the road.
Read the rest of Obama Administration Regulations to Require Cleaner-Burning Gasoline by 2017
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