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Article: EPA Approves Plan for New Class of Low-Polluting Cars in Northeast
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- The Washington Post
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- December 20, 1994
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The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday approved a plan
for 12 states - including Maryland and Virginia - and Washington,
D.C., to dramatically reduce smog by requiring automakers to
introduce a new class of cleaner-burning vehicles to be sold
primarily in the Northeast.
The decision could lead to the development and marketing of
cars and trucks on the East Coast that pollute at least 70 percent
less than those on the road today do.
The plan allows the jurisdictions - which also include
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont - to try to
meet stringent federal air quality standards by giving ...