New US Fuel Standards Aim to Cut Asthma, Heart Attacks

The Obama administration on Monday announced new fuel and automobile rules to cut soot, smog and toxic emissions, which it says will reduce asthma and heart attacks in the United States. The so-called Tier 3 rules unveiled by the EnvironmentalProtection Agency have been under development since PresidentBarack Obama issued a memorandum instructing the agency todevelop them in 2010. The rules, the third tier in a series of standards, will cut gasoline sulfur levels by more than 60...

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