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Related: About this forumPruitt's Filing To Roll Back CAFE "Unprecedented" In Shoddiness, Lack Of Data, Numbers, Content
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The rules Mr. Pruitt is targeting would require automakers to nearly double the average fuel economy of passenger vehicles to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Automakers have argued the rule is onerous, forcing them to invest heavily in building hybrid and electric vehicles.
As part of the process, Mr. Pruitt filed the 38-page document, which is meant to supply the governments legal justification for rolling back the rule. About half the document consists of quotations from automakers laying out their objections to the rule. By comparison, the Obama administrations 1,217-page document justifying its implementation of the regulation included technical, scientific and economic analyses justifying the rule. Experts in environmental policy said the lack of analytical arguments in this weeks E.P.A. filing surprised them. This document is unprecedented, said Mr. McCargar, the former E.P.A. senior policy analyst. The E.P.A. has just never done anything like this.
John M. DeCicco, a professor of engineering and public policy at the University of Michigan Energy Institute, said the filing was a departure from the practices of previous Republican and Democratic administrations. A president or an administrator or somebody cant just say, Im going to change the rule, without justifying it very, very carefully, Mr. DeCicco said. As a scientist whos worked on these issues, Im saying, where are the numbers? Wheres the data?
Most of the document consists of arguments quoting directly from public comments made by automaker lobbyists, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Global Automakers, that the pollution rules will be unduly burdensome on the auto industry, as well as public comments from Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz and Mitsubishi.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/climate/scott-pruitt-epa-rollbacks.html
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Beartracks
(12,822 posts)They care more for dollars than sense.
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Beartracks
(12,822 posts)That one was an obvious sop to the coal and nuclear industries that was simply couched in sensible-sounding lingo.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ferc-rejects-does-coal-and-nuclear-bailout-plan
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)FloridaBlues
(4,011 posts)And this is one little part of the reason. Rollback everything
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)And/or Environmental groups. Anyone who is gonna file the lawsuits.
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)gee, when have we ever seen that?
Of course, with old Pruitt at the top, they're basically in charge.