2016 Vehicle Standards: Better Mileage, Cleaner Air

The national fuel-efficiency and emission-control standard announced in mid-May will significantly raise the requirements for vehicle manufacturers, foreign and domestic. But the standard will also enable automakers and regulators to pursue the goals more efficiently.

Pleasing environmental groups and - publicly, at least - manufacturers, President Obama described new, comprehensive rules that:

Raise the required, overall average for fuel efficiency to 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 - four years earlier than current federal law requires. New passenger cars would have to average 39 mpg; light trucks, 30 mpg. (The current average for cars is 27.5 mpg; for trucks, 23 mpg.)

Impose, for the first time nationwide limits on vehicle-exhaust emissions.

Carbon dioxide and other vehicle emissions that contribute to climate change would be reduced by almost one-third by 2016. The volumes are hard to comprehend, but the Obama administration said the restrictions would reduce greenhouse emissions by 900 million metric tons - the equivalent of taking 177 million cars off the road during the 6-1/2-year duration of the new policies.

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