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New Trump mileage standards to gut Obama climate effort

by Associated Press Writers
| March 31, 2020 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come, gutting one of the United States' biggest efforts against climate change.

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