# EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s Dirty Cars Action – By the Numbers

*Published:* 2018-04-03
*Author:* Alice Henderson

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](https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/UZKtCXDMlGFwgDxUVt4g_?domain=epa.gov). 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](https://medium.com/cityoftomorrow/a-measure-of-progress-bc34ad2b0ed) and [Honda](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/climate/epa-auto-pollution-pruitt.html) – 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](https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/W5N3CpYzmDhYWomSkqL2a?domain=ag.ny.gov)
- **Three** – Number of auto companies whose association is represented by Steven Hart, the lobbyist whose wife owns the [condo that Pruitt rented](https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/v7dYCn5zkAi82DvSEMdyq?domain=washingtonpost.com) for only $50-per-night
- **Two Billion** –The tons of [climate pollution reductions](https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2018/04/MTE-Relaxation-Impacts-Final.pdf) at risk under Pruitt’s attack
- **17.5 percent** – [General Motor’s contribution](https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2018/04/MTE-Relaxation-Impacts-Final.pdf) to the potential excess pollution – the single largest volume of pollution associated with any single automaker
- **$460 Billion** – The [fuel savings](https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2018/04/MTE-Relaxation-Impacts-Final.pdf) for American families at risk under Pruitt’s attack