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.
Scott Pruitt’s EPA appears to be backing away from defending the rule that limits ground-level ozone—a byproduct of fossil fuel pollution that produces hazy skies (smog) and is linked to respiratory and heart ailments.
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.”
