NATION : Auto Emissions Stalemate Broken
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<i> From Times wire services</i>
WASHINGTON — Key House members broke a decade-long stalemate over clean air legislation today, agreeing to apply California’s strict auto emissions standards to the entire nation, congressional sources said.
The sources, speaking only on condition they not be named, said the compromise would put California’s requirements--the toughest of all 50 states--into effect nationwide through 2002. They could be strengthened starting in 2003.
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