Trump Critics See Co-Benefit Double Standard In MATS, Vehicle Rollbacks

Environmentalists and other critics of the Trump EPA’s deregulatory agenda are citing plans to roll back vehicle greenhouse gas and power plant mercury rules as high-profile examples of a double standard in which officials ignore “co-benefits” that strengthen rules but embrace them when they help justify weaker standards. The critics charge that in the case of the vehicle rule rollback, administration officials are citing co-benefits stemming from claimed safety improvements to justify their rollback while in the case of the...