No, that’s not an Onion headline—a new report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) finds that Administrator Scott Pruitt tried to rush through a regulation which would allow the new sale of trucks that lack modern pollution controls without actually considering whether that would be, you know, a bad thing. The report is clear and consistent with an administration that seems hellbent on doing whatever it can to eliminate environmental safeguards, especially when it will benefit political cronies and/or special interests.
The investigation was sparked by Senators Tom Carper and Tom Udall, who requested that the EPA OIG take a closer look at the rulemaking on glider trucks (aka #ZombieTrucks). What the EPA OIG found is damning.
