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.
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.”
