Obama Announces New Tighter Fuel-Efficiency Standards

President Obama today issued the toughest emission and mileage standards in history for new cars sold in the United States, a move environmentalists hail as the first step ever by the U.S. government to curb global warming. Obama said new standards mark "not only a change in policy in Washington, but the harbinger of a change in the ways business is done in Washington." "At a time of historic crisis in our auto industry, when domestic auto manufacturers are making painful choices and...Full Story