Light trucks face tougher air standards

  • 02/11/1998

Environmental regulators in California and Washington are preparing to require steep reductions in air pollution from cars and want to apply similar rules to sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks and minivans. Deteroit's Big Three automakers have accepted that all these vehicles will have to, become much cleaner. But they say that it is unrealistic to demand pickup trucks like the Dodge Ram meet the same pollution standards as cars.