Automakers Agree to 54.5 MPG Fuel-Economy Rule, Obama Says. Bloomberg.
Jul 29, 2011
By Angela Greiling Keane
...Environmental groups including the New York-based Natural Resources Defense Council had asked the administration to raise fleetwide fuel economy to 62 mpg. The rule “was weakened by auto-industry lobbying,” Dan Becker, head of the Washington- based Safe Climate Campaign, said in an interview. ...