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.
Despite mounting scientific evidence linking the insecticide to learning disabilities in children, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt called the ban “unnecessary."
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.”
President Trump promised U.S. CEOs that he would cut regulations, which would include standards that keep lead out of drinking water, protect people from pesticide poisoning, reduce air toxins that threaten children’s health, and reduce climate-wrecking carbon pollution.