Orange County to utilize new equity map to help resolve community disparities

"The Social Progress Imperative produces a well-known list of equity data called the Social Progress Index that's been used by California, the United Nations and foreign countries."

"Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversity's Safe Climate Transport Campaign, said the proposed EPA standards would still fall short of the goals set by Obama."

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"Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan democrat, acknowledged there would be complaints from some quarters about the regulations."

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"The mandates are a centerpiece of Biden's climate plans and mark his administration's first major effort to use regulation to stem planet-warming greenhouse gases."

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""Today, I am following through with a campaign commitment to reverse the previous administration's short-sighted rollback of vehicle emissions and efficiency standards," Biden said at a White House event to aounce the new standards as well as a national goal for half of the new cars sold in the U.S. be powered by batteries or other no-emission technology."

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""It's definitely an improvement" over previously reported versions, said David Cooke, a senior vehicles analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists."

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"While the proposed Biden EPA rule reaches a projected industry target of 171 grams of carbon dioxide per mile, the Obama rule would have achieved a standard of 163 grams of carbon dioxide per mile a year earlier, Becker said."

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"U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a statement the proposal "would save drivers hundreds of billions of dollars on gas, reduce pollution, and help counter the climate crisis we are seeing all around us.""

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"The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday proposed new mileage standards and limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks that exceeded what some environmentalists feared would be issued."

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"The fuel economy and emissions requirements proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation would strengthen mandates eased by the Trump administration -- and, over time, mark a return to a more stringent path charted by former President Barack Obama in 2012."

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"The fuel economy and emissions requirements proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation would strengthen mandates eased by the Trump administration -- and, over time, mark a return to a more stringent path charted by former President Barack Obama in 2012."

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"Federal regulators are developing additional rules targeting methane emissions from oil wells and carbon dioxide releases from power plants, after the Trump administration relaxed requirements."

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""These robust standards are underpied by sound science and technical expertise, encouraging the development of technology and iovation that will drive America forward into a clean energy future," EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan said in a statement."

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