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Drivers may pay for next step in fight against climate change

U.S. drivers may soon see a new expense at some gas pumps: the cost of taking the global-warming fight on the road.

By Alex Nussbaum, Bloomberg | Updated on January 12, 2016
A customers prepares to pump gas on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, at a gas station in Pembroke, Mass. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

(Bloomberg) — U.S. drivers may soon see a new expense at some gas pumps: the cost of taking the global-warming fight on the road.

New York and four other states are exploring ways to put a price on the air pollution spewing from cars, trucks, trains and other vehicles — the source of more than a third of greenhouse-gas emissions in the northeastern U.S.

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