The new standards could prevent up to 1,600 premature deaths from air pollution every year—but that's not the bottom line EPA chief Scott Pruitt is concerned about.
The agency has asked a federal court to put a 90-day pause on a lawsuit while it considers whether it should continue to defend its own emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks.
The Trump administration wants to get rid of this popular program, which has saved families and businesses $430 billion on utility bills and reduced climate-changing pollution by 2.7 billion metric tons since it started 25 years ago.
In a meeting with several auto industry CEOs, President Trump claimed to be “to a large extent an environmentalist” but nevertheless stated that the government’s environmental regulations are “out of control.”
A radically backward approach to environment and energy, the America First Energy Plan reiterates President Trump’s commitment to rolling back federal safeguards that allow Americans to breathe clean air and drink clean water.
