{"id":231,"date":"2015-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/legislative-focus-crash-prevention-recalls-and-clean-air\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:34:21","slug":"legislative-focus-crash-prevention-recalls-and-clean-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/legislative-focus-crash-prevention-recalls-and-clean-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative focus: crash prevention, recalls and clean air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National legislators have long been trying to get car manufacturers to produce vehicles that are more environmentally friendly and that better protect their drivers and passengers, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>At first blush, that might reasonably seem to be a bifurcated focus, with those topic areas not having any readily perceivable overlap.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee have come up with an interesting twist, though, that has somehow managed to tie those two concerns together, while at the same time seeking to entice car makers to act through employment of a carrot-rather-than-stick approach.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/legislative-focus-crash-prevention-recalls-and-clean-air\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Legislative focus: crash prevention, recalls and clean air\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National legislators have long been trying to get car manufacturers to produce vehicles that are more environmentally friendly and that better protect their drivers and passengers, respectively. At first blush, that might reasonably seem to be a bifurcated focus, with those topic areas not having any readily perceivable overlap. 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