Pruitt 'Freezing Out' OTAQ Expertise In EPA Vehicle GHG Rule Overhauls

摘要

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is "freezing out" technical input from his Office of Transportation & Air Quality (OTAQ) as the agency reopens Obama-era greenhouse gas (GHG) rules for heavy-duty trucks and passenger cars, say sources who fear the agency's vast engineering expertise on emissions controls it has built up over decades could be marginalized. "What you have is an administrator who is determined to repeal as much as possible," says one environmentalist, even if that means giving short shrift to public health considerations. "He doesn't trust that the staff is going to follow his direction and he is just avoiding them. What you end up with is proposals that have almost no technical analysis."