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New Trump mileage standards to gut Obama climate effort

(Richard Vogel | AP file photo) Early morning rush hour traffic crawls along the Hollywood Freeway toward downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 12, 2017. President Donald Trump's is expected to mark a win in his two-year fight to gut one of the United States' single-biggest efforts against climate change, relaxing ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raising the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel emissions for years to come.