The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed air-pollution standards that it says will reduce the amount of sulfur in U.S. gasoline by two-thirds and impose fleet-wide pollution limits on new vehicles.EPA would roll out the proposed rules by 2017.
(http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/290883-report-delayed-epa-gasoline-pollution-rules-coming-friday)
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