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My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to another headlines episode here on the

Sustainable Minimalist podcast. Today we're talking planes and automobiles, even though the title is

planes, trains and automobiles. We're just talking about planes and automobiles today.

Specifically, we're starting off with the automobiles because if you were paying attention,

you already know big news out of the White House as of Wednesday.

Yes, the Biden administration did announce a new rule aimed at expanding electric

vehicles and reducing tailpipe emissions. So let's remind ourselves cars and other forms of transportation like

trains and planes they are together the largest single source of carbon

emissions generated here in the United States. And these carbon emissions, it's

pollution. It's driving climate change, which by the way helped make 2023 the hottest year in recorded history.

The pollution is also bad for human health.

Those fine particulates, the PM 2.5s that we talk about an awful lot on headlines are in part due to

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