This is written by Alice Henderson. This post originally appeared on Climate 911:
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt just announced an attack on our nation’s clean car standards – standards that are reducing dangerous pollution and saving Americans’ hard-earned money.
We’ve reviewed Pruitt’s action. Here’s a look – by the numbers:
- Zero – Number of times Pruitt mentions the words “children,” “health,” “air pollution” or “climate”
- Fourteen – Number of times Pruitt directly quotes the auto industry
- One – Number of times Pruitt quotes anyone else
- Sixty-Three – Number of times Pruitt cites the auto industry
- Zero – Number of cited EPA analyses that support rollbacks
- Two – Number of automakers – Ford and Honda – who have stated they do not need a rollback of EPA’s clean car standards
- Fifteen – Number of states that warned the Trump Administration that any effort to weaken our nation’s clean car standards would be met by a “vigorous” court challenge
- Three – Number of auto companies whose association is represented by Steven Hart, the lobbyist whose wife owns the condo that Pruitt rented for only $50-per-night
- Two Billion –The tons of climate pollution reductions at risk under Pruitt’s attack
- 17.5 percent – General Motor’s contribution to the potential excess pollution – the single largest volume of pollution associated with any single automaker
- $460 Billion – The fuel savings for American families at risk under Pruitt’s attack
TELL THE BIG THREE AUTOMAKERS: PROTECT CLEAN CAR STANDARDS