The Obama administration will unveil national tailpipe emissions standards and mileage requirements Tuesday, which will force automakers to dramatically boost the efficiency of vehicles by 2016, but give them a single national standard. Under a compromise being announced tomorrow, California and 13 other states efforts to impose a 30 percent reduction in tailpipe emissions will be approved and extended to the rest of the country. The federal government is expected to set mileage standards that are consistent with those requirements -- about 42 mpg by 2016 for cars and at least 26.6 mpg for light trucks.
California and many other states have long sought to impose their own tailpipe emissions standards, but were stymied by the Bush administration, which refused to grant them a waiver under the Clean Air Act to do so. Automakers fought in court for years to block the standards and lobbied government officials to stop them.
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