Pruitt Touts Vehicle GHG Rules As 'Progress' On CO2 Despite Rollbacks

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is touting the Obama administration's light-duty vehicle greenhouse gas standards as the “greatest progress” EPA has made with respect to reducing carbon emissions, comments that appear paradoxical as the Trump administration works to potentially relax those standards and seeks to more broadly undermine climate policy efforts. “I think the greatest progress we have made as an agency has really been honestly with mobile sources,” Pruitt said, referring to joint Department of Transportation fuel economy and EPA...