Scientists Just Debunked One of the Biggest Arguments Against Fuel Economy Standards for Cars

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May 3, 2017

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"In fact, some of the changes the Obama administration made to the CAFE standards were designed to address safety concerns, according to Joshua Linn, a senior fellow at environmental research nonprofit Resources for the Future. (Linn was not involved with the new study but has provided comments on the working paper to the authors.) The study suggests that, in reality, this was probably never actually a problem, he said."

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