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Managing the impacts of motor vehicles on the environment has been a major objective of US environmental policy since the early 1960s. Most of the attention has been directed at urban air emissions from tailpipes and at land-use changes resulting from rapid expansion of the motor vehicle fleet. Noise pollution, natural resource depletion, associated oil spills and toxic contamination, and disposal of retired vehicles or parts have also commanded significant attention. During the 1970s, energy-related impacts became highly visible owing to the oil-price shocks orchestrated by OPEC (1973–4) and by the government of Iran (1979–80).
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Hempel, L.C. (1995). Environmental technology and the green car: towards a sustainable transportation policy. In: Fischer, F., Black, M. (eds) Greening Environmental Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08357-9_5
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