Larisa Manescu, larisa.manescu@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Politico reported that EPA’s Science Advisory Board issued its final report criticizing the agency’s rollback of the clean car standards for using “faulty science” and that the current standards “might provide a better outcome for society than the proposed revision.”
The proposed final rule to roll back Obama-era clean car standards has been under review by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget since January.
Since then, people familiar with the documents have described the rollback as “Swiss cheese” and “sprinkled with glaring numerical and spelling errors (such as “Massachusettes”).”
In response, Andrew Linhardt, the Deputy Director of Advocacy for the Sierra Club’s Clean Transportation for All campaign, issued the following statement:
“Time and again we’re reminded that there’s nothing good that could come out of the Trump’s administration’s indefensible rollback of clean car standards. It should be a major red flag that the EPA’s own advisors are raising alarm about the scientific merits of the proposed rollback, but this is unfortunately par for the course for a science-denying administration. Corporate polluters like GM, Toyota and other automakers, who have shown their true colors in siding with Trump, should listen to their own consumers and speak out against this rollback of important climate and consumer protections.”
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