EPA fought with other agencies over clean car rule’s safety claims

Published August 14, 2018 9:15pm ET



The Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Departments fought for months over the extent to which the Trump administration’s plan to roll back clean car rules would save consumers’ lives.

The EPA had disagreed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on the number of deaths that the Trump clean car rules would avoid by rolling back fuel-efficiency and emission targets set by the previous administration, according to hundreds of pages of documents released Tuesday.

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