Trump Using Detroit as Stage for Loosening Obama’s Fuel Economy Rules

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March 15, 2017

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"The standards 'affect U.S. oil dependence by reducing our oil consumption,' said Richard Newell, president of Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan research organization in Washington focused on energy economics."

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