{"id":18481,"date":"2018-04-03T08:57:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=18481"},"modified":"2018-04-03T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:50:58","slug":"epa-administrator-scott-pruitts-dirty-cars-action-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2018\/04\/03\/epa-administrator-scott-pruitts-dirty-cars-action-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt\u2019s Dirty Cars Action \u2013 By the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt just announced an attack on our nation\u2019s clean car standards \u2013 standards that are reducing dangerous pollution and saving Americans\u2019 hard-earned money.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/UZKtCXDMlGFwgDxUVt4g_?domain=epa.gov\">Pruitt\u2019s action<\/a>. Here\u2019s a look \u2013 by the numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Zero<\/strong> \u2013 Number of times Pruitt mentions the words \u201cchildren,\u201d \u201chealth,\u201d \u201cair pollution\u201d or \u201cclimate\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourteen<\/strong> \u2013 Number of times Pruitt directly quotes the auto industry<\/li>\n<li><strong>One<\/strong> \u2013 Number of times Pruitt quotes anyone else<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sixty-Three<\/strong> \u2013 Number of times Pruitt cites the auto industry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zero<\/strong> \u2013 Number of cited EPA analyses that support rollbacks<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two<\/strong> \u2013 Number of automakers \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/cityoftomorrow\/a-measure-of-progress-bc34ad2b0ed\">Ford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/30\/climate\/epa-auto-pollution-pruitt.html\">Honda<\/a> \u2013 who have stated they do<em> not<\/em> need a rollback of EPA\u2019s clean car standards<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fifteen<\/strong> \u2013 Number of states that warned the Trump Administration that any effort to weaken our nation\u2019s clean car standards\u00a0would be met by a <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/W5N3CpYzmDhYWomSkqL2a?domain=ag.ny.gov\">\u201cvigorous\u201d court challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Three<\/strong> \u2013 Number of auto companies whose association is represented by Steven Hart, the lobbyist whose wife owns the <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/v7dYCn5zkAi82DvSEMdyq?domain=washingtonpost.com\">condo that Pruitt rented<\/a> for only $50-per-night<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two Billion<\/strong> \u2013The tons of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2018\/04\/MTE-Relaxation-Impacts-Final.pdf\">climate pollution reductions<\/a> at risk under Pruitt\u2019s attack<\/li>\n<li><strong>17.5 percent<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2018\/04\/MTE-Relaxation-Impacts-Final.pdf\">General Motor\u2019s contribution<\/a> to the potential excess pollution \u2013 the single largest volume of pollution associated with any single automaker<\/li>\n<li><strong>$460 Billion<\/strong> \u2013 The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2018\/04\/MTE-Relaxation-Impacts-Final.pdf\">fuel savings<\/a> for American families at risk under Pruitt\u2019s attack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt just announced an attack on our nation\u2019s clean car standards \u2013 standards that are reducing dangerous pollution and saving Americans\u2019 hard-earned money. We\u2019ve reviewed Pruitt\u2019s action. Here\u2019s a look \u2013 by the numbers: Zero \u2013 Number of times Pruitt mentions the words \u201cchildren,\u201d \u201chealth,\u201d \u201cair pollution\u201d or \u201cclimate\u201d Fourteen \u2013 Number &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020,4017,202,20,44],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-clean-air-act","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-news","category-policy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt\u2019s Dirty Cars Action \u2013 By the Numbers - Climate 411<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2018\/04\/03\/epa-administrator-scott-pruitts-dirty-cars-action-by-the-numbers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt\u2019s Dirty Cars Action \u2013 By the Numbers - Climate 411\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt just announced an attack on our nation\u2019s clean car standards \u2013 standards that are reducing dangerous pollution and saving Americans\u2019 hard-earned money. 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