As Review Starts, Vehicle GHG Rollback Expected To Ease Safety Benefits

As the White House begins reviewing EPA and the Transportation Department’s (DOT) draft final rule rolling back Obama-era vehicle greenhouse gas standards, an industry source says the measure might reduce the claimed safety benefits by a factor of 10 after a barrage of criticism that the methodology for asserting the benefits was flawed. The Trump administration is pushing ahead with the rollback, sent Jan. 14 for White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) pre-publication review, even as EPA’s Science...