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

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