Time for Automotive Emissions Labels? 

Tags: EPA, CO2, Autos

By Tiffany Clements
Posted: 05/20/09
 
As a companion the newly-announced plan for CAFE standards, the EPA is likely to use its authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate CO2 emissions from autos on a gram-per-mile basis.
 
With these new developments the time might be right for the government to provide car buyers with gram-per-mile information they can incorporate into their purchase decisions. RFF Senior Fellow Kate Probst has proposed a labeling scheme along those lines here.
 
Tiffany Clements is managing editor of Weathervane.

 
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