Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. Wh en the Trump administration laid out a plan this year that would eventually allow cars to emit more pollution, automakers, the obvious winners from the proposal, balked. But it turns out that there was a hidden beneficiary of the plan that was pushing for the changes all along: the nation’s oil industry. The campaign’s main argument for significantly easing fuel efficiency standards — that the United States is so awash in oil it no longer needs to worry about energy conservation — clashed with decades of federal energy and environmental policy.

Source: New York Times December 13, 2018 10:00 UTC