Stymied In Rulemaking, Staff Sought To Omit EPA From Vehicle Rule RIA

August 15, 2018
EPA staff has been essentially frozen out of crafting the detailed justification for the Trump administration's plan to roll back vehicle greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards, to the point where the agency asked that its logo and a reference to its technical staff be removed from a draft regulatory impact analysis (RIA) weeks before the plan was issued. The request, which was only partially granted, underscores the extent to which EPA staff was often overruled by officials with the...


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